Are you feeding your brain trash? Episode 18

Are you feeding your brain trash? Episode 18

“Food is such an integral part of our social fabric. It becomes a part of the storytelling process,” but our farming memory is being lost across generations, says Dr. Cami Ryan, a Canadian social scientist. This loss of farming memory has created gaps and barriers between rural and urban. Opportunists fill in the gaps with new information, which isn’t always accurate. Cami explains how food can be taken on as identity, leaving a person susceptible to bullying. She offers insight on information literacy to keep the trash out your brain and social feeds.

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Animals are not humans

In a society where we embrace rodents as cartoon characters, give pigs a political voice, and fill advertisements with grinning cows, we seem to forget that animals do not have the same intelligence or abilities as humans. Animals’ lives deserve to be respected and valued—but they are not humans. As such, animals have different housing…

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Is social media dead in the food & farming discussion?

Center pivots of information are directed right at you; we consume about 168 million DVDs worth of information on the internet each day. Are you ducking, drinking or drowning? Info overload is very real; Michele shares social statistics that may surprise you and asks – if social media is dead, what has been birthed in its place?

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