Regarding the seed and meat industry and our contemplative practice for module 9.\u00a0 I thought a lot about how I feel about the choices I make when I eat and why I chose to make them.\u00a0 Do I even care, or do I choose what to eat because I like it?\u00a0 Thinking about this module and then doing the contemplative exercise I couldn\u2019t help to remember that plants are in many ways like animals.\u00a0 They reproduce, they live, they feed, and like animals, like us, they are part of an important ecosystem that has been around billions of years.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s treat plants and animals as living things that are equally important to the cycle of life.\u00a0 I always like the idea of GMO seeds or other technological advancements.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t choose to not buy something because it was GMO or because it was organic.\u00a0 Now, thinking of plants—seeds—remembering they are just as alive as us, makes me want to be more aware of how my food is being farmed. \u00a0Why would I want to eat food that was created when it naturally is the food that we need it to be?\u00a0 Why would I want to contribute to a process that is ultimately going alter the natural processes of our planet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Regarding the seed and meat industry and our contemplative practice for module 9.\u00a0 I thought a lot about how I feel about the choices I make when I eat and why I chose to make them.\u00a0 Do I even care, or do I choose what to eat because I like it?\u00a0 Thinking about this module and then doing the contemplative… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,31],"tags":[94,84,151,74,57,90,245,75],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemplative-practices","category-week-9","tag-agriculture","tag-culture","tag-environment","tag-farming","tag-food-justice","tag-food-system","tag-seeds","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}