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The TEDxUWLaCrosse Salon Series, presented Glutton for Punishment: The Environmental Costs of Western Diets at the UW-La Crosse Institute for Campus Excellence, Murphy Library, on Tuesday, March 8, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. The event opened with a presentation and group discussion facilitated by Dr. Adam Driscoll, assistant professor - Department of Sociology.
At a TEDx salon, attendees watch TED Talks, listen to speakers, and have discussions about the talks they witnessed. Salons re-engage the audience in the presentation model through the critical element of lively discussions, allowing attendees to actively participate in the event and shape the conversation.
Dr. Driscoll summarizes his presentation, “This salon explored the nature of the global food system and how current agricultural and food industry practices are unsustainable in both an ecological and a distributive sense.” The salon also included TED videos by Tristram Stuart and Dan Barber. Driscoll continues, “Themes we explored included the amount of food being wasted by our current system, the ecological footprint associated with Western diets, issues of food justice, and problems with agricultural illiteracy. We finished with a discussion of possible alternative models to the current food system that exist at both the local and global levels. We discussed how we as individuals can help foster environmentally sustainable food systems that provide healthy, affordable food for all”
I had to wait forever for him to fill his fat little gut so that he would open his wings. But still, he can come back to my table as much as he wants.
Taken above the village of Crowdicote looking alone the Dove valley towards Glutton Bridge with both Chrome and Parkhouse hills in the background.
How many pens (lenses) must a man have before you call him a glutton?
I fought against collecting, but I had to do it through acquisition. I feel I have now reached the point that I no longer care about rare, exclusive things. I have tried some (and still own quite a few) of the most desirable pens (and lenses) and all I have learned from that is that it is completely irrelevant for almost anything except that eigenvector of our identity. Perhaps it is better to have tried and to have than not to have tried, but the contribution in this single dimension is largely irrelevant for any other aspect of our existence. The total net effect might in fact be even negative. A new collectible item is a succubus that never sleeps. More desire breeds more desire. This is what Epicurus would have called a vain desire, one with no natural limit and no point of satisfaction, unlike hunger or thirst, which end the moment they're met.
Take this Namiki and compare it to this Preppy. One costs a few pounds and the other costs thousand times that. Is it really 1000 times more valuable? Will it bring you anything objectively important? Can't this Preppy write everything the Namiki can? Will owning a unique handpainted pen make you a better writer? Will it give you new inspiration? Will it solve any of your issues? Who are you to deserve dozens of hours of someone's meticulous painting work?
Perhaps the Namiki is just that rare spice on top of everything else and will make you reach for a pen more frequently and will nudge you into spending more time self-reflecting. But, do you really need 5, 10, or 20 of them? Almost certainly not. Yet, we are seduced and we cannot resist the temptation. The smell of a brand new Namiki box (or new camera, or new lens, or new watch, or anything new) is so seductive and it is a drug that gives a temporary boost. However, the escalation ladder has no bounds and we keep on escalating, which inevitably leads to inner corruption, and to talk about external vulgarity of such behaviour is pointless. I shall thus conclude once again with Leonard Cohen's verses: "Everybody knows the deal is rotten/ Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton/ For your ribbons and bows/ Everybody knows."
Have a good day, a good weekend ahead, and a good life.
The TEDxUWLaCrosse Salon Series, presented Glutton for Punishment: The Environmental Costs of Western Diets at the UW-La Crosse Institute for Campus Excellence, Murphy Library, on Tuesday, March 8, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. The event opened with a presentation and group discussion facilitated by Dr. Adam Driscoll, assistant professor - Department of Sociology.
At a TEDx salon, attendees watch TED Talks, listen to speakers, and have discussions about the talks they witnessed. Salons re-engage the audience in the presentation model through the critical element of lively discussions, allowing attendees to actively participate in the event and shape the conversation.
Dr. Driscoll summarizes his presentation, “This salon explored the nature of the global food system and how current agricultural and food industry practices are unsustainable in both an ecological and a distributive sense.” The salon also included TED videos by Tristram Stuart and Dan Barber. Driscoll continues, “Themes we explored included the amount of food being wasted by our current system, the ecological footprint associated with Western diets, issues of food justice, and problems with agricultural illiteracy. We finished with a discussion of possible alternative models to the current food system that exist at both the local and global levels. We discussed how we as individuals can help foster environmentally sustainable food systems that provide healthy, affordable food for all”
The TEDxUWLaCrosse Salon Series, presented Glutton for Punishment: The Environmental Costs of Western Diets at the UW-La Crosse Institute for Campus Excellence, Murphy Library, on Tuesday, March 8, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. The event opened with a presentation and group discussion facilitated by Dr. Adam Driscoll, assistant professor - Department of Sociology.
At a TEDx salon, attendees watch TED Talks, listen to speakers, and have discussions about the talks they witnessed. Salons re-engage the audience in the presentation model through the critical element of lively discussions, allowing attendees to actively participate in the event and shape the conversation.
Dr. Driscoll summarizes his presentation, “This salon explored the nature of the global food system and how current agricultural and food industry practices are unsustainable in both an ecological and a distributive sense.” The salon also included TED videos by Tristram Stuart and Dan Barber. Driscoll continues, “Themes we explored included the amount of food being wasted by our current system, the ecological footprint associated with Western diets, issues of food justice, and problems with agricultural illiteracy. We finished with a discussion of possible alternative models to the current food system that exist at both the local and global levels. We discussed how we as individuals can help foster environmentally sustainable food systems that provide healthy, affordable food for all”