First Course

In the article, "Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables," Mark Bittman emphasizes how "taxes would reduce consumption of unhealthful foods and generate billions of dollars annually."  He discusses how this plan would benefit everyone, including those of low income.  In the article, "No Lunch Left Behind," Alice Water talks about how a healthier lunch program would benefit school, children, and the environment.  These articles mainly focus on advocating for healthier diet options to help decrease the chances of poor health conditions.  

These two articles exposes how the government subsidizes the processed food industries, when they could be promoting healthier lifestyles.  The government could easily tax unhealthy food products and with the money collected it could go towards producing fresh, cheaper, better quality foods.  

These articles do not particularly support my research paper, but it does provide me with more perspective and ideas.  My research paper is on how gardening at home could promote healthier diets.  

The video I've included provides insight on how organic foods and conventional foods are produced.  This video helped me think of more ways to build my research paper.  It shows me how we ourselves can choose what goes in our garden and how we can produce our own organic food products.  

https://youtu.be/BebNsezt6r0