{"id":23,"date":"2020-11-03T21:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/?p=23"},"modified":"2020-11-03T21:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T04:35:29","slug":"the-stories-that-goods-can-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/2020\/11\/03\/the-stories-that-goods-can-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The stories that goods can tell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s unit made me think more about the reality we live in and how much we actually do not know about the process behind things. The article by Peter Benson called &#8220;Broccoli and Desire&#8221; showed me how we as people can be easily convinced and unaware of things happening around us. Up till this point I have never looked into how much effort, hard work, insecurity and how many wrongs can be behind the <strong>story<\/strong> of just one vegetable: in this case broccoli. This one vegetable tells us a story that people normally don&#8217;t see if they don&#8217;t decide to dig deeper. It tells us a story of the land being used, a story of the people who harvest the land, a story of the people who sell the crop and a story of how the whole system around that one crop in reality works: it shows the harsh truth. \u00a0As any other consumer I also walk in supermarkets and I have never wondered how did this vegetable get here in particular. Peter Benson helped me realize that the way I consume automatically affects the producers of that good or at least he reminded me of it. So sometimes by us forgetting that every good has its own story, we unknowingly may support a cause that we in reality disagree with but due to our unawareness we keep supporting it. As Benson affirms &#8220;<em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">American visits a supermarket about twice a week and\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">spends half of his or her food budget there<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&#8221; (p.808). We can see how much power we as consumers have. As we change our shopping behaviours the\u00a0<\/span>market<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0will respond. Thus, thanks to this\u00a0<\/span>article<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0I\u00a0<\/span>realized<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0that as responsible citizens we should start learning about the stories of at least some goods that we buy. In this case now we know at\u00a0<\/span>least one &#8211;<strong>\u00a0&#8220;the story of broccoli&#8221;.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s unit made me think more about the reality we live in and how much we actually do not know about the process behind things. The article by Peter Benson called &#8220;Broccoli and Desire&#8221; showed me how we as people can be easily convinced and unaware of things happening around us. Up till this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,20],"tags":[14,6,22],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-last303","category-reflections","category-unit4","tag-last303","tag-reflections","tag-unit4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allofus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}