Timmerman Worksheet
HMXP 102
Dr. Fike
Note: You must bring this handout and Kelsey’s book to class, and you ought to go through the entire list of concepts on your own as homework. That means marking your books.
STEP ONE (40 minutes) : In your groups, use an arrow (
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Negative Neutral Positive
ROW 1 : COOL law 5, 199
Importation 6
Environmental psychology 8
Fair Trade 10, 258
Migration from farm to city 11, 115, 266
Overnourishment, malnourishment 11
Outsourcing 12
Sustainability 12, 52, 58-59, 142, 146
National food security 12
Sense of overarching connectedness 12, 52, 141, 152, 241, 263, 266
Climate change, global warming 13, 23, 100, 210
Valuable agricultural commodities 15, etc.
Economic inequity 25, 37
Commodification > value 26
Bureaucracy 33
Clever marketing 35
The Starbucks effect 35
Weaving 46
Ethnic chauvinism 47
The Law of Origin (sustainability) 48, 51
ROW 2 : Non-self-sufficiency 49
Image > culture 51
Understanding > possessions 51
Americans ecological footprint 52
GMOs 52, 238
Environmentalism 54
Spraying, pesticides 55, 238
Wireless connectivity 57
Possessions > values 60
Slavery 66, 108
“African Miracle” 73
Farm subsidies vs. free market 75

Overproduction and market value 76
Value-added product 79, 98
Child labor 90
Global food chain as a hourglass 98, 25
Rite of passage 112
Education 58, 99, 119, 128, 135, 140, 142, 227
EARTH University, closed loop system 134, 144
ROW 3 : Banana Republic 138
Monocultures, homogeneity 141, 148, 238, 265
Spiritual component 141
Rural small-scale farming 142, 146, 238
CAFOs 143
Industrialized agriculture 143-44
Biodiversity 144, 149-50, 263
Positive feedback loop 144
Peace, justice 144
Green Revolution 145
Round-Up ready seeds, “suicide seeds,” “terminator technology” 145
Composting, natural adversaries, cover cropping, reforestation 146-47
Tight margins 151
Consolidation 151
Loss leader 151
Work on a banana plantation 158
Solidarismo > workers’ rights of association 160-61, 238
Overpopulation 162
Workers’ physical and mental stress 162
ROW 4 : Communist threat 170, 186
Decompression sickness 173-74
Lobster: life, luxury 189
Hypocrisy 191
Underwater genocide 192
Quality fade 200
Deforestation, erosion, desertification 220
Ecological reclamation and balance 220
The Slow Food movement 238
Fast food 238
Seed banks 238
Agribusiness, industrial agriculture 238, 259, 263
Racism, xenophobia 243
Ethanol 247
Financial speculation and growth 248
(Vegetarianism) 250
Autism 255
Casein- and gluten-free diet 255
Being a glocal 259
Genetic and cultural diversity 265

STEP TWO (15 minutes) : Answer the following questions, using the items in step one to establish strands (a strand is a list of things that are similar to each other).
Negatives ( ROW 1 ): What features and consequences of the current global food system is Kelsey criticizing? In other words, what items in the list from step one would he diminish or eliminate altogether?
Positives ( ROW 2 ): If Kelsey could adjust the global food system, what would it look like? In other words, which items from the list in step one would receive greater emphasis or be more prevalent?
Attitudes ( ROWS 3 & 4 ): Here are four positive attitudes whose value Kesley wants you as a reader to adopt. They are the lessons he wants you to take away from your reading of his book. What does each mean? Why is each important? Why does each stand out more than other positive items on the list? Respond to each in a few sentences.
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Connectedness ( ROW 3 )
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Education ( ROW 3 )
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Environmentalism ( ROW 4 )
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Glocalism ( ROW 4 )
STEP THREE (15 minutes or homework if we run out of time) : The final step in today’s exercise is an individual writing experience. Based on your understanding of the list in step one, write a letter to your senator or representative in the U.S. Congress. You just read Kelsey’s book, and you are writing to call your lawmaker’s attention to X problem and to advocate for Y solution. In other words, now that you have read and discussed Where Am I Eating?
, what is your greatest concern and why?
If any time remains, which is doubtful, we will watch part of The Dark Side of Chocolate . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vfbv6hNeng
BRING THIS HANDOUT TO OUR NEXT CLASS.