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I'm passionate about

I'm most passionate about food. Surprising since I'm becoming a teacher and not a chef, I know. I love to cook, and especially love hearing about the artisans who are bringing back food as an art.

An idea worth spreading

The next time you go out to eat, stop and think for just a minute. Consider that unless you are eating organic beef, that hamburger you just ordered will contain thousands of different cows. It will contain hormones, antibiotics, and even ammonia, which is needed to kill the e.coli bacteria residing in the cows' stomachs. Consider that the chicken breast you ordered, once again, unless it is organic, is two to three times the size it should naturally be. Know that the chickens were kept in trailers devoid of any sunlight, and were never allowed out. Consider that the spinach in your salad could contain e.coli or salmonella, because the water used on the plants was contaminated. The food industry in America is a shady and dark business. One that wants us all to remain ignorant, as our wastelines bulge, and our health declines. Bon apetit.

Talk to me about

Anything! Science, technology, literature, our Earth. It all fascinates me.

Comments

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• A comment on Conversation: What if you met everyone you met online in real life?

  Sep 1 2011: I believe we would all be very surprised how different those people are, and how different we interact with them. Think about it. Being online makes us feel much for confident than we sometimes are in real life. I do think it would do us all good though, it would show how deceiving the internet can be.

• A comment on Conversation: How do we reform education?

  Sep 1 2011: One of the bigger problems here is that when it comes to education reform, we have politicians who act almost apathetic about the quality of a students learning. They say class size doesn't matter and that the teacher is completely responisble. Additionally, they decrease funding for schools, especially if the standardized test scores are subpar. Yet these politicians, who have no background in education, fail to see that our students today are learning differently. Kids respond better to technology than they do to actual books. We're seeing such a huge emergence creativity, yet we still test students in the most base way possible. A way that doesn't connect with them at all, and labels them as unintelligent. In order to get into most universities, you have to take one of two standardized tests, even though they might not correlate with whatever career you plan on pursuing. If we are really going to reform our tattered education system, we need to reexamine the way we see our students, and the way they see the world.