MO: Farm Bill

Today in MO, we had special guests from Food and Justice to give us a presentation about Farm Bill. Farm Bill is a piece of national legislation renewed every 5-7 years that controls how food reaches our plate, by determining what is grown and how much it costs, and therefore, who has access to it. And the current Farm Bill covers 15 categories, which are Commodities, Conservation, Trade, Nutrition, Credit, Rural, Development Research, Forestry Energy, Horticulture & Organic Aquaculture, Livestock, Crop Insurance, Commodity Future, and Trade & Taxes. 78% of the Farm Bill funding goes to nutrition. 15% goes to insurance and Subsidies & crops. 6% goes to conservation and others are 1%.

MO Reflection

During the week of MO lessoning, I learned that advocators use polices to improve and make changes our education. Once they improve our education, they start to organize the school activities and events.

Importance of exercise

During the Mo project I learned the importance of exercising. And we made a poem to inform youths about the benefits of exercise. My poem start like this:

Exercise is important to you and me
sleep better, eat better and live better
Don't ever say it's too hard
too boring
or too much time
Because you know exercise is good for you

Comment about "The Merchant of Cool"

In the video of the "The Merchant of Cool" I learned that media fashions are very attractive to teens. Teens follow whatever is on the show,they spend money on the things that they don't need. Nowadays, teens are running the economy. They get money from their parents because their parents don't have time to spend with them. With all the extra money that the teens own, they can spend on everything that they like. This give the merchants ideas by promoting more commercials on TV Channels. They find celebrities to represent their products, telling teens that buy it, try it; this XX celebrity is using it. And teens that want to stay cool have to change right away. The faster the trends spread, the faster people focus on that specific products, the more moneys media companies receive.

MO's Community Mapping Project

During the MO's community mapping project, me and my group found out both healthy and unhealthy places around the Lakeshore, Oakland. We started from Oakland High, walked all the way to Lakeshore, Subway. During the walk, me and my group saw bunch of litters around the street, or in the walkway. When we made it to Subway, we saw that Subway was in between a shopping district, where there has Starbucks, cafes, restaurants, and markets. We walked around those areas, we investigated that there were some healthy places for the students to have lunch. For example, like Lakeshore Produce, selling all the fresh fruits and vegetables. We walked in and interviewed the owner, but the owner didn't give us much information. Unhealthy place was the liquor store, selling wines, beers, cigarettes.Our station Subway is selling healthy, and real meat sandwiches. Inside Subway, the environment were peaceful with music playing, and warm air. The floor, chairs, tables, cabinets, and drinking machines are very clean. The workers are very friendly to the costumers. Outside Subway, the environment was cold and cars passing by. Subway would be healthy and great place for Oakland High students to have a lunch outside campus. Only 15 minutes walking from Oakland High to Subway, 5 minutes for buses.

What I have learned during the Mo project

What I have learned during the Mo project so far was the foods that were sold in the community. For example, the food that students buy in their community everydays can affect their health, and growth. The amount of healthy foods that were available in students' neighborhood can also impact students behaviors and the amount energy that they supposed to have. Last, was the environment that the students surrened in everyday. The students who surrounded in a violent environment will mostly not do well at school, but comparing to the peaceful environment that the students were in, they will most likely do well and earn good grades.