Food philosophy

For your final assignment, you are required to write a ‘food philosophy’.

A philosophy is a set of rules you use to guide your life. For this assignment, you are asked to express how you view food, food choices, food behaviour, relationship with food, etc. — what guides you in your dietary choices.

Here are a set of questions to think about as you write your food philosophy:

1. What is your relationship with food? What is important to you about your food?
2. What is important to you in a meal?
3. How do you choose what to eat?
4. What is your relationship with food in your family? What is your role regarding eating in your family?
5. What is your relationship with food in your community? What is your involvement (food banks, community groups, business, government agencies)?
6. What is your relationship with food beyond your community? How does your eating affect others?

You do not have to answer all the questions; the questions above are simply a guide. Consider the following, the majority of which we discussed in class:

– Food systems (global and local)

– Nutrition

– Advertising / Marketing / Packaging

– Food workers

– Food choices and the impact of food choices

– Food movements and diets

Consider this food philosophy as your ‘food rules’.

You are required to support your ideas with research. Include a minimum of three different academic citations/references in the paper. For example, if you prefer to shop at local, smaller family-owned food stores, rather than larger chain food stores, explain why using research. Perhaps you have found statistics that claim that smaller, family-owned stores pay their employees more and this is important to you. Remember to cite your sources properly in APA format.

Length: 600 words minimum – 800 maximum