Question

i neeed someone to reflect on this article.

Answer 1

At the end of a tree-lined dirt road surrounded by farmland, a boy with tousled blond hair smiles shyly behind a door that leads to a space that might serve as a garage for more conventional American families. At this home, though, the door opens onto a neatly arranged work area where an array of homemade bread awaits pickup. The boy’s mother, Melissa, bakes for the Monroe Park Grocery Cooperative in nearby South Bend, Ind. She is part of an extended community of young Amish families trying to navigate the vicissitudes of a globalized food system by farming the old-fashioned way—with draft horses, respect for the land and strong bonds of relationship rooted in faith.

Melissa’s baked goods are a hot item at the co-op, located in a mostly African-American neighborhood with a history of gang violence, a high school graduation rate of 47 percent and few prospects of employment in the middle of this rust-belt city. More than a mile removed from the nearest full-scale grocery store, Monroe Park qualifies as a food desert. It could also be considered a food swamp, since it hosts a couple of convenience stores flooded with snack food options high in calories but low in nutritional staying power.

Opened last spring in the local Catholic Worker community’s drop-in center, the grocery co-op emerged from conversations among neighbors about the scarcity of fresh, healthy, affordable food in an urban area surrounded by some of the richest farmland in the country; it is a double paradox, in that growers here struggle to find sufficient market venues for their goods.

Running a community grocery stocked with local foods and cultivating cooperative economic practices represent civic actions of nonviolent love.

Co-op members have high hopes, too: that area farmers will have more incentive to grow a variety of crops, knowing firsthand the needs of their customers; that inner-city residents will have access to affordable, fresh food and new opportunities for mindful consumption, in tune with the rhythms of creation. We hope that the bonds of social relations, sundered by the alienating effects of industrialization, will flourish again and that people of every age and background will have a chance to learn or retrieve time-tested skills for growing and preserving food.

In response to the direct challenges to food security posed by climate change, oil dependency and corporate agriculture, the act of setting up a local food system is a peace-building practice. Dorothy Day, co-founder with Peter Maurin of the Catholic Worker Movement, probably would have called it “the little way of love.” With her contemplative gaze, she noticed the interrelationship of the violence in our hearts, on our streets and among nation-states. Following St. Thérèse of Lisieux, she tried to meet the brokenness of the person right in front of her with the healing power of God’s love. To the extent that our local community can rely less on a globalized food system fueled by depleted energy supplies contested in international conflicts, our efforts to reconnect with one another and with the earth offer a little way of love.

Answer 2

please

Answer 3

I know what "reflect" means but what sort of reflection are you seeking?

Answer 4

your thoughts on the article

Answer 5

and relate it to life

Answer 6

:)

Answer 7

Bread is not healthy. Wheat makes you fat and sick.

Answer 8

directrix
have you read othello?

Answer 9

You do realize this is the mathematics section?

Answer 10

you do realize that if this bothers you you can leave

Answer 11

Hey what is more economical/env. friendly... Having every single person who wants a piece of fish gets in their car and goes to Puget Sound/Ocean Shores to catch fish or have an entire supply of fish shipped over to WA from the east coast.

Answer 12

hey, shut up

Answer 13

Tell me what you think.

Answer 14

i can tell you a lot of what i'm thinking right now.. but that'd hurt your feelings and be considered cyber bullying so i'll do us both a favor and not get into that

Answer 15

@kakakaylaaa --> Yes, I have read it but not recently.

Answer 16

tomorrow can i send you my essay and can you look over it?

Answer 17

And being polite as well?

Answer 18

@kakakaylaaa - In the future, please do post something like this in the writing section. The Mathematics forum is solely for discussion of Mathematics.

@brinethery - Thank you for attempting to correct this user's incorrect categorization of their problem, but in the future if they don't respond positively to your advice, just use the report abuse button and walk away. It's not worth getting in a fight over. :)