Name: Lucette Reynosa

Social Justice Group: Food insecurity in NYC (C)

Date of Fieldwork: January 12, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Food Inc

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

Over the past few days, I and my group have watched a documentary titled Food Inc. This documentary teaches us about where food comes from and how unhealthy big companies can be. It was so unsettling to learn how bad some food you see at the grocery store is for you. It made me think about people who don’t have enough money to afford the more expensive healthy/organic food. I think that it is crazy how much of the food in our stores is just from one or two companies.

A crazy fact we learned is there is corn in diapers, batteries, and peanut butter. As a country, we need to get better at mass production and food waste. It’s so bad for our environment and is a major cause of the food industry throughout the nation.