Food is something we all need to survive yet often times it is more than just that. Food is a way to connect with our heritage, to celebrate, and to relive memories. Certain foods bring back a thousand memories while others are simply repulsing. Whether it be cinnamon buns or chocolate cake, we all have a food that is our favorite. When someone asks us to give a description of ourselves, favorite foods are used to describe who we are. Food can change a bad day, food can be the highlight of your day. Food is awesome. I would say Canadians are mostly local food consumers because 75-80% of my diet was foods that are produced or grown in Canada. Most of the grains and wheat we consume is grown in Canada along with cheeses and some vegetables. Imported or global foods would include some fruits and fresh vegetables. For example, the banana I eat everyday is imported from Guatemala. Also, the celery and carrots which I eat as a daily snack were imported from California. However, some Canadians may be mainly global consumers because they eat traditional foods that are imported to Canada from other countries. I do consume a lot of South Asian food myself but the majority of the ingredients are grown or produced in Canada such as lentils and beans. Some exceptions would be the spices such as Garam Masala or Turmeric which are imported from India. Considering my own diet and generalizing it for most Canadians, I would say it is not really a concern because the majority of foods I consume are Canadian. However, I would add that I am a vegetarian, and perhaps the percentage of food grown or produced in Canada would vary significantly for someone who is not a vegetarian or vegan. Some of the meats in the grocery store are imported from t... ... middle of paper ... ... and what kind of a lifestyle I believe is healthy. In other instances however, food does mold who I am. As explained above I, often cook fusion foods which reflect my Indian heritage within North American foods. The type of food I buy also molds who I am. Again I consider myself fairly health conscious and therefore when at the grocery store I try to make wise choices by reading labels because being aware of what is going into your body is important to me. I consider myself a conscious and aware consumer, therefore food does mold me. Works Cited 1 Turner, Chris. “The Farms Are Not Alright.” TheWalrus.ca. The Walrus News, Oct. 2011. Web. 20 May. 2014. 2 Fraser, Evan. “How to Feed Nine Billion.” TheWalrus.ca. The Walrus News, Dec. 2012. Web. 20 May. 2014. 3 Chapman, Sasha. “Manufacturing Taste.” TheWalrus.ca. The Walrus News, Sept 2012. Web. 20 May. 2014.
Carol’s food choices did not reflect the six Directive Statements in Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating as well as they should have. The first Directive Statement is to “enjoy a variety of foo...
Canada is a nation that has been created through the unity of several nations and different cultures and is being recognized around the world through its appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism, unity, freedom and independence. In fact, although Canada is Internationally popular socially, economically, environmentally, politically, and geographically, people outside this country still have misunderstandings towards this nation. Therefore, despite the inaccuracy of Canada’s identity due to some people’s bias and lack of specific knowledge among social and environmental issues, the general global perception of Canada is fair and accurate as discussed by leaders and common people.
Food has been used as a tool by many cultures as movements to help with their culture become recognized, to identify their way of being, and to show their class and status. By exploring different author’s articles, and movie clips this will be visible. Food has created many cultures to explore these outlets and in return has had a positive impact on their culture.
In Michael Pollan’s “The End of Cooking” shares the message of what we are losing something important in this day and age because of all our pre-made and processed foods. This can be compared with Kothari’s “If You Are What You Eat, What Am I?” and her argument that food is part of one’s own identity. By using the examples from these two texts you can analyze the state of food and culture in the United States today. All of the processed and pre-made foods are causing people all across America to lose their sense of Culture. We no longer know what it’s like to make one of our cultures specialty dishes from scratch which can help people identify with their culture. This process helped newer generations see what it was like for those before them to cook on a daily basis and could help them identify your sense of culture.
Canada is known for being the country filled with all different type of people from all around the world. The community that I have chosen to look in depth is Canadian Chinese.
The Canadian Food Guide1 is an important health promotion tool, as long as it is adapted to the sociocultural context in which it is used. This is crucial for the First Nations, which are struggling with health problems related to nutrition and whose traditional eating habits must be taken into account2. Drawing deeply into their values and culture, Atikamekw health services have developed their own Food Guide (AFG) in 1998. For ten years, it was the main tool used by health workers to teach basic principles of healthy eating.
Canadians waste $31 billion of food every year, 47% wasted in the home*. The primary contributor to consumer food waste is high expectations—demand for high-quality, aesthetically-pleasing food is a key factor behind the volume of food waste occurring among consumers.* In North America, over 30 percent of fruits and vegetables are rejected by supermarkets because they aren 't attractive enough for consumers. (*According to the Cut Waste, Grow Profit 2014 report.)
Centeral Intelligance Agency. (2008, August 21). CIA World Fact Book: Canada. (C. I. Agancy, Producer) Retrieved September 11, 2008, from World Fact Book: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/ca.html
Food plays a very important role in every religion and culture. Good nutrition is a great symbol of healthy food/diet. In order to keep ourselves healthy, it is very important to watch what we are eating. Food habits come from parents, which later on developed according to the environment. Food is one of the ways where humans describe themselves as cultured. Food is the most significant segment of our lives. Different types of food explain verities of the belief that we have in all over the world. Ones’ food discipline and choice, tells about which culture/religion they belong to. Food, Religion,
Food influences us in many ways. These ways include food as nutrition, how we see nature, in our culture, it is a social good, it is a source of inspiration in an artful way, food is a primordial desire, and food influences our spirituality. Food is a substance that derives from the environment in the form of plants, animals, or water. The primary function of food is to provide nourishment to an organism. It is a basic necessity that all humans want and need in order to live. Food has an intrinsic value separate from its instrumental value to satisfy human needs. Food has a significant impact on a culture. Each society determines what is food, what is acceptable to eat, and when certain things are consumed. Food is the object of hunger
To be healthy you must have four unsettles ingredients. These four things are eating healthy and the right amount, exercising regularly, sleeping well, and getting the right nutritious vitamins. A child two to eight years old need the same four unsettles to be healthy. The only difference is that they need a different amount of each that an adult. They must eat the recommended intake in each food group corresponding with their age and sex stated in the Canada’s food guide. They must also get daily excurses, with lots of sleep. The National sleep foundation recommends that children one to five years old should get 11 to 14 hours of sleep each night (National sleep foundation, n.d.) They must also get the right nutritious vitamins to help them grow. A good way to achieve this is with a child baste motley vitamin. I will be inspecting the intake of food a child in daycare consumes each day to see if them meet the recommendations set by The Canada food guide. Studying their strengths and weaknesses and how thy can be improved.
What does being Canadian mean to me? Well I think we do have several experiences and values that we generally share (although not necessarily all at the same time). Things like hockey, poutine, maple syrup, our environment and all that as well as a respect for democracy, individual and reasonably limited rights and freedoms. We won’t share all of these interest and experiences—that merely make us human—but I think that not only does it play a role in what makes us Canadian, but also how we view Canada. However, through this course, I have learned that there is another way of looking at Canada, through geographical lenses. It’s a concept that focuses on the idea that there is more to places/landscapes/nature then there is. It doesn’t just show
According to Hinduism, the religion most common in this country, believe that killing animals is inhumane and is unfair to the creature, thus there are not many meats that available for the people, except in some certain areas. Despite this fact, meat alternatives are very popular in India for these people being able to get protein and healthy fats while still being able to follow the guidelines of their religion. The prices of lentils, especially are cheap there as many poor and middle class families rely on these types of foods. Some examples of these types of lentils or culturally known as, daal, are moong, urad, masoor, and chana daal. Moreover, India is one of the major importers of lentils from Canada surprisingly, spending on average $1.1 billion dollars. As this Asian nation is already drowned in substantial amounts of debt, having many of its citizens buying all the lentils can ensure them that they are making profit of these foods. Thus, through the food guide, they want to encourage Indians to continue to buy this item buy making the protein a section of the food guide, rather than nothing or a very small portion. Moving on, in Canada, meat and alternatives are a small portion of the food guide because an individual does not need a lot of it to maintain a healthy body. Also, in many western countries like Canada, fast food meals have become very popular and are being eaten in enormous quantities, raising the number of obese, diabetic and individuals with heart related problems. Therefore, in the food guide it addresses Canadians to have small servings of meat when cooking themselves, to ensure that none or merely a few people are overeating
Food is traditionally considered as a simple means of subsistence but has developed to become filled with cultural, psychological, religious, and emotional significance. Consequently, food is currently used as a means of defining shared identities and symbolizes religious and group customs. In the early 17th and 18th centuries, this mere means of subsistence was considered as a class maker but developed to become a symbol of national identity in the 19th centuries. In the United States, food has been influenced by various cultures such as Native American, Latin America, and Asian cultures. Consequently, Americans have constantly Americanized the foods of different cultures to become American foods. The process on how Americans have Americanized different cultures’ foods and reasons for the Americanization is an important topic of discussion.
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