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As I was browsing through the Internet i found that when people were talking about food they like or things they dislike about food they weren't very open to other points of view and were set on just there opinion.

I typed the word "Vegetarian" into the google search bar and one of the first things that loaded was a recipe and the page then filled up with more recipes and places where they sell vegetarian food. After typing in vegetarian pros and cons not to many articles popped up but the one that i did look at had more pros and didn't get to into the cons. Now i know being a vegetarian is healthy and helps with people's diets but doesn't every good thing have a bad side as well? Its very obvious to see that when people are trying to pursue an individual or group of people into liking something new dominant discourse comes into play.

After reading Doctors orders: eat well to be well i was very perplexed by the ideas Dr. Preston Maring was trying to push across. "I like to put doctor's on the spot...We tend to be exalted, and i want to show the staffs that many of us don't know how to mince garlic" There are reasons why doctors are doctors and not chefs, if your going to bring something new to an enviorment (such as an organic food stand) you should be prepared for people to wonder about the stand and not know how to prepare whatever it is you brought to the enviorment such as an organic stand. "We get so little training in nutrients that i wanted to provide some basic knowledge" If not everyone is given the certain amount of knowledge to completely understand a topic how are we supposed to widen our intelligence? Boundaries such as these cause discourse and limitations on what individuals and do/improve on because there is just so much more to learn as you grow older.

Reading through Senate Bill on Food safety Is stalled I had a brain blast when i came across the word farmers. Most organic foods are grown on farms and farmers work very hard to produce good healthy food, but what about all these outburst of salmonella and other viruses that organic and farmed food give us. Such things like this are never really talked about as much as the good part of farming is. Our community is very biased and only like to talk about positive things instead of trying to fix and improve the bad. When it comes to not being biased i believe discourse plays a major roll and people only like to talk about the good things to a certain point and once they get to that point they no longer want to discuss the topic.

Discourse plays a major role in most of our lives and we don't usually pay attention to it. Our conversations are usually limited and don't go any further then we usually have to, for example ask your friends where they want to go to lunch. The conversation usually ends right when a place is decided instead of going further and seeing whether or not the place is healthy, or if there are more options that could be cheaper or what not. Discourse limits our daily lives and effects how we get/ interpret what we are taught or read.