Video Awareness

Group 1:
The Meatrix- Shows the difference between the old fashioned farms and the new factory farms.
The old fashioned farms used people, but now the factory farms are all cramped and on top of each other and the jobs use machines.  There are a lot more diseases.  "I found it disgusting that the newborn baby cows are fed stuff that is mixed with the blood of the dead cows."  The factories affect our water, the chemicals and feces running off into the rivers.
"I think [a take away] is just an awareness thing, about what you eat.  Not enough people know that if you eat like that it can help you."

Group 2:
TED talk- A biochemist mother changed her autistic daughter's diet in hopes of affecting her behavior.
They changed to a whole foods diet and removed gluten and dairy from their diet.  The removal of MSG really helped the little girl's responses to her environment and her interactions with her peers and family.  She was more aware of where she was, and was even allowed to leave her special needs school.  It really proved that we are what we eat, and the food we consume really does effect us.
"I took away that I should be more careful about looking out for foods with MSG because it can have a lot of harmful effects on the body."
MSG, mono sodium glutamate, is listed on the labels of processed food as seasoning, natural flavoring, gelatin, yeast extract.... It's a flavor enhancer.

Group 3:
TED talk- Jamie Oliver went around in America and England studying obesity.
Four generations from now, the children will live 10 years less than their parents.  He talked about how 2/3 of his audience was technically obese.  He also talked about how schools don't provide the right kinds of food to their students, and some of the students didn't even know what some kinds of fruits and vegetables were.  Oliver said that the milk in schools from a whole year for a student who drinks it daily is a wheel barrow full of sugar cubes.
"It made me feel lucky about the food we have here at the car."