Man Forages for Own Food - Final Blog

In the United States we use 25% of the world's resources despite having only 5% of the population, this effects other places around the world where prices are going up for food we are using, that they used to rely on. Rob Greenfield from Orlando, Florida is trying to bring awareness to this issue by growing or foraging for all of his own food for a year. He travels on bikes around the states seeing what plants grown and where, and figures out what plants grow best in Florida. He has a tiny 100 home he lives in, made out of recycled resources, located in someone's backyard in Orlando. The only problem with foraging for all of your own food is getting the proper amount of protein, and also finding food that has not been affected by pesticides, which are now in almost anything, and especially foraging near the road can have risks. For over 100 days now Greenfield has been able to prepare meals using only his foraged or grown food and has learned more about plants and where they grow, making him feel confident he could find food around the world. Foraging for all your own food ties a little bit back into when we talked about anthropology and all the societies that foraged for their own food. Hunter-gatherers were a little bit the same way, except they actually killed their food. Greenfield only uses food he finds, he does not kill any of it. It seems like he is very much making a statement as he travels around the world bringing awareness to these topics. In my fall research paper for IHSS I wrote about how agriculture led to the rise in technology we have today, and although it seems a little bit like Greenfield is backtracking when he goes back to agriculture, it also seems like agriculture has played an important part in our societies and building the civilizations we have today. We rely on agriculture to bring us food, Greenfield is just relying on it to a much larger degree than the rest of us. It is interesting to me how this all ties back to early civilizations and how they survived and the modern perspective and way Greenfield is bringing it back. Although it seems like a small way to start, it is still a start to getting people to realize the importance of protecting our resources and not overusing them, but instead taking full advantage of them.

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