Today as a class we partook in the ritual of the Seder meal for the celebration of Passover. This was an interesting touch to my family religious history I never fully experienced, just passively through an informal Hanukkah. This was a great ritual for me to watch Dr. Redick perform, being that I feel a strong connection with Judaism although I never have truly practiced it. I found the parsley to be of particular interest. The dipping of the green into the tears is a heavily symbolic religious act, consuming it into your own body for digestion. It becomes a part of you, just as the taking of communion in the Catholic Church.
This connection of the food to the earth as briefly explained in class brought to mind Ecology of Eden. Food production has been so far removed from a natural farming ideal that it travels across the world to feed people. How much more efficient would the world be if there was no exportation of food? The film I watched for government 215 called Life and Debt explores the exploitation of Jamaica and the banana industry by America. It is a film everyone needs to see in addition to reading this book in order to bring light to the reality of this situation outside America and caused by us.
Here is a link to the documentary:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1012786448011028455&hl=en
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