Reflection Post: Weeks 5 and 6

In the last two weeks of Environmental Health we watched two different films: The Future of Food and Diet for a New America.

The first film, which we watched in week 5 of class, was mainly about a company called Monsanto and their impact on smaller, family owned farms. Monsanto is an agricultural company that "applies innovation and technology to help farmers around the world produce more while conserving more." Monsanto had patented different types of seeds that somehow ended up on smaller families farms, because Monsanto had rights to the patent they sued the smaller farms for having Monsanto's seed on their property. It was unfortunate to see small farms lose everything because of a large company like Monsanto and their selfishness.

The second film, Diet for a New America, we watched in week 6 of class. This movie is hosted by John Robbins who's father started Baskin-Robbins ice cream business. John studied the American-based food diet for over 10 years and presesnts his findings in this video. I thought a lot of the facts presented in this video were very intreseting and alarming. Unfortunatley, I think our obesity epidemic has just continued to spiral further out of control and has no end in sight. The last portion of week 6 was spent learning how to put a photo in a header as well as find the appropriate size of the header box.

The last two weeks were fun and I learned some interesting things. I am looking forward to our upcoming classes!!!