Dear Class,
As I got to know, it is impossible to put your comments on the 100-mile page, so please write your comments here. Remember that the deadline is November 18th (Friday). You only have to write your comment - you do not need to comment on the others' comments - too complicated!
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NZENB Frank Gehry homework: The 100-mile diet: The average journey that the food you eat travels is 1500 miles; what if you only ate food that traveled 100 miles to r...
As I got to know, it is impossible to put your comments on the 100-mile page, so please write your comments here. Remember that the deadline is November 18th (Friday). You only have to write your comment - you do not need to comment on the others' comments - too complicated!
If you have questions, please let me know.
This was the first time for me to make something called a "page," which is different from a "post," so please excuse me as I learn the system. Thanks.
NZENB Frank Gehry homework: The 100-mile diet: The average journey that the food you eat travels is 1500 miles; what if you only ate food that traveled 100 miles to r...
I’m Narumi Tsunashima.
ReplyDeleteI think 100-mile diet is very good idea, because it is so simple.
People can support the local farmers easily by 100 mile diet.
However, this idea is not fit Japanese situation, I guess.
Actually, 100 mile covers all prefectures in Japan.
But ‘MADE IN JAPAN’ is more expensive than other countries’ food at supermarket.
People tend to buy cheaper food naturally.
It is difficult to buy only 100-mile food for ordinary people.
100 miles is 160 kilometers - I don't understand what you said about 100 miles covering all prefectures of JJapan. Nor do I get what you said about made in Japan food. Actually, local food can be cheap - I bought a huge bunch of komatsuna from Chiba ken for 138 yen. Blueberries from California cost me 297 yen. They are imported and shouldn't be part of this diet. The diet is based on the principle, not the price. Eat local, save the earth because the real point of eating locally produced food is that we cut down on shipping and packaging.
ReplyDeleteMs. MacGregor
I would like to try this 100 mile diet. In my city in Saitama, super market is selling many vegetables from farms of neighbor city. They are very reasonable price and varieties of vegetables are there. However, there are no meats in range of 100 miles. If I want to eat meats or fish, I have to go fish it otherwise I cannot eat.
ReplyDeleteIt will be easy for me that I can live without these kind of foods.
This challenge is hard for people in Tokyo because there are no farms in Tokyo so that she/he will starve for sure. Or maybe there are some vegetables grown in plastic greenhouse but they are expensive.
ShuheiWada
I want to try this diet if I can afford to do it. And I think this method is an epoch‐making idea because we can understand an insight into what food exists near our living area. So I suggest this idea is useful for education of food for children, especially who live in rural area.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the 100-mile diet is difficult to realize in all Japanese area, especially city. That is because there are little rice fields in urban area, including Tokyo, my living prefecture. So this diet is effective for country and the people who live there should introduce and try the 100-mile diet.
Masashi Yamada
I agree this movement “100 miles diet.” It is because 100 miles diet is environment-friendly. If many people buy and eat food which is made near their home, farmers don’t have to bother to transfer them to the consumers who live far away. Decreasing the number of the transportation about food allows us to save gasoline and its fee. And then we can enjoy food with cheaper price. I think it is good idea.
ReplyDeleteBut I think it is difficult for us to do “100 miles diet” in Japan, especially Tokyo. I have two reasons I think so. First is the problem about self-sufficiency ratio for food in Japan. Japan depends on the import of foods. That ratio is about 60%. And we especially depend on the import about grain like soybean and wheat, which are important for our daily dish. Second is about the price of Japanese food. Compared with the other countries’ food, the price of food made in Japan is higher than the others, even though lower transportation fee could be lower because we live in Japan. Further the president decided to enter TPP, which makes the price of import food lower than now by decreasing the tariff rate. Therefore I think it is difficult for Japan to do “100 miles diet.” But I think also it is important for us to try it as long as possible. The consciousness trying to buy food that made in closer place could change the Earth little by little.
Motoki
Honestly, I don't want to try this. There are two reasons why.
ReplyDeleteFirst, our lifestyle would be poorer. We Japanese eat many kinds of dishes. This is probably because we are not accustomed to eat the same meal over and over again. I think we are rare peoples. For example, in India they often eat curry every day. In the United States, they often eat cereals for breakfast and eat meat at night. They take supplements for the lack of nutritions. If we try the campaign, we would not be able to have coffee or cacao because it is impossible to grow them due to the climate. Can you imagine living without them?? No way!!!!
Second, the purpose of the campaign is said to be save shipping and handling so that we can save CO2. How about food farmers are growing in green house? Farmers use bunch of gasolines to warm up the building. This is obviously a burden to environment.
Sotaro
I would like to try this "100 miles diet". If we try it, we can find growing areas and eat more fresh foods. And, I think this program leads to "eco" because it needs not do surplus packing.
ReplyDeleteThe more far the foods are transported, the more secure they are packed. So, local foods are good for our environment. But, it may be sometimes difficult for us to try this "100 miles diet". In cities like Tokyo, there isn't farm so much.
Should we abandon this program? I think that we should try this program as hard as possible. Actually, there are many children who don't know foods in season now because we import and sell foods which are out of season. I feel very sad. In Japan, there are four seasons and seasonal foods. So, it's Japan that shold try this "100 miles diet" and enjoy the seasonal foods.
Moreover, I have an idea. I think that teachers of home economics shold explain and use "100 miles diet" to students in practice hours of cooking. Through this process, children will learn to local foods or seasonal foods. With luck, they will show interest in foods.
Kako Furukawa
I do not agree with 100 miles diet.
ReplyDeleteI have two main reasons for this. First,a lot of farmers will be protected if 100
miles diet is executed.By being protected,competition will not occur.Competition increase farmer's enthusiasm,while the enthusiasm of farmers will decrease without competition.
Second, people want to choose things such as vegetables and fruits by themselves.If 100 miles diet is adopted,they can't choose.I think it does not enable them glad.
Takuya
My understanding of 100 mile diet is that you eat only vegetable, fruits and meet so you can’t eat any produced foods. 100 mile diet sounds good because you can help former near your city and also you are healthier by having fresh foods. But I think it is not realistic. First is it true that it helps formers near your house? If a lot of people try to do 100 mile diet, production will not catch up with people’s demand. After all former will be annoyed. Second if people stop eating produced foods, people who work in Production Company and factory will have difficulty in continuing instead of helping former. Third the present world is related with each other strongly. So actually we should not focus on just former who live near your house. Forth if people start 100 mile diet, self-sufficiency of Japan will increase. But it will not achieve 100%. It means that Japanese people still have difficulty in living without foods from foreign country.
ReplyDeletePersonally I like this idea because foods from local former will be cheaper and fresher. But I don’t feel like I want to stat 100 mile diet because I want to eat produced foods, too.
Yuna
In my opinion, this trial is good for knowing about vegetable that are made around your house. I have watched this documentary on TV with my family a couple month ago. Then my father was laughing about them because they can eat many vagetable but they do not want to eat them. They just loved junk foods so much. But my family don't have the custom to eat such foods so it seemed very easy for us. Also Japan is much smaller than there so it's easiler to get various foods. If I have time and money, I would like to try this diet. Then I can know about vegetables more.
ReplyDeleteLily
I’m curious about 100-mile food and we should try that. Nowadays, it is really natural for us to buy groceries only at a supermarket. I guess it is because we forget the existence of the farmers and their importance even though people can hardly live without their works. If we take on this trial, we will become familiar with the locally produced food then turn our attention to the agriculture. That will change our attitude toward farms and lifestyle fundamentally. I mean set aside the economic influence, we should try 100-mile diet from the point of view of recognizing the importance of the farmers again.
ReplyDeleteShun
Here are my comments to all of the 11 people who did this HW on time - thank you!
ReplyDeleteFirst, Shun - I like your attitude. Are you going to try it? You can try for one day or one meal each day for a week, or something small to get the idea of it.
Second, Lily - my suggestion to Shun is the same I have for you. Why not give it a try?
Third, Takuya - I cannot understand how competition will be removed. Farmers will still have to compete with each other. And I think you don't understand the point of 100-mile diet by your second comment. The point is to eat locally produced foods to reduce the global footprint - save energy on shipping food that so that we can have whatever we want, even if it is not the season for it where we live.
Yuna - do you mean "farmer"? you had better fix your spelling.
And you are right - the diet refers to eating only vegetables, fruit, meat, and not processed foods. However, we cannot forget to include rice. Then, I wonder about things like bread - bread from your local bakery OK? I don't know - it is made locally, but the ingredients (flour, yeast, etc.) might not be made locally. Hmmm.... But essentially, it asks us to change the way we eat radically. The original idea was also to lose weight and eat less chemicals that appear in the processed food such as aspartame, preservatives, MSG. Also, we would reduce the amount of garbage if we quit drinking bottled drinks, using food from cans and jars, and buying stuff in boxes, bags and other packages.
Comments to the rest of you later.
Ms. MacGregor
Shuhei and Masashi,
ReplyDeleteActually, there are several small gardens near my house in Tokyo where I can buy komatsuna, nasu, potatoes, tamanegi,daikon and other leafy vegetables. I would have to research about cabbage, shiitake, maitake, carrots, lettuce, cucumber and tomato and negi - all of which I eat. If Tohoku is included in the geographical range, then I can eat apples. Mikan are from western Japan - maybe too far? Bananas? No way. Same for blueberries. Lemons and grapefruits? NG. I list up these things because they are what I have in my refrigerator now.
I think I would have to give up a lot of these things, all of which I like a lot. So my menu of vegetable choices would be greatly decreased. Dairy products and meat should be OK, and the same for tofu and icecream. I already explained my question about bread.
I think I would have to do a lot of research, so I would probably have to wait till a vacation time to sort things out.
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Motoki,
I agree completely with the problems related to adopting this style of eating. As I wrote above, it would take a lot of research and time for shopping to make it realistic. But, I think it would be a good "wake me up" to try it to notice how dependent I am on other countries and far away regions in Japan for my daily food.
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Sotaro,
Oh yeah - coffee and black tea and cocoa. Big problem for me. You are right. Your criticism of the greenhouses is good - perhaps we should try to avoid buying things grown in greenhouses first.
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Kako,
Your idea to introduce this diet in schools is great - if students can get awareness about where food comes from, they might be more careful about what they buy and what they eat. I applaud your interest in trying this program. As I wrote earlier, it might be interesting to try it for a short time - say, for a day or weekend or for one meal a day for a week. I think we should experience it to some extent to get an awareness of what we eat and where it comes from.
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Narumi,
I already replied to your comment. It appears below yours.
Ms. MacGregor