My neighborhood here in little village is a place where meat is consumed almost all the time. Many hispanic meals consist of red meat and such because it is a part of the hispanic culture. For example, if you go to supermarkets around the neighborhood you will find that meat is the most prevalent food out here. It is something that can’t be missing from the dinner table, that is for those that cook. Now for those that don’t regularly cook and eat out often from fast food restaurants and such you will notice one thing: burgers are more affordable than something healthy like a salad. This is done entirely on purpose to make people consume all this meat. In Chicago you can’t go around the corner without finding fast food restaurants that sell red meat based products.
A way students can get involved in fighting for more healthy options for food is to join programs that focus on planting gardens for the community so people have something healthier to eat that burgers. There’s plenty of organizations around the neighborhood that focus on that. One of those organizations that is well know here in Little Village is LVEJO. LVEJO has focused on a lot of issues that involve the community. Among those issues are food accessibility in our community. If the students find that joining such programs can be somewhat of an inconvenience then they can cut down the meat consumption from their diets and also convince others around them to cut it down as well by letting them know all the issues with the meat industry.
A way students can get involved in fighting for more healthy options for food is to join programs that focus on planting gardens for the community so people have something healthier to eat that burgers. There’s plenty of organizations around the neighborhood that focus on that. One of those organizations that is well know here in Little Village is LVEJO. LVEJO has focused on a lot of issues that involve the community. Among those issues are food accessibility in our community. If the students find that joining such programs can be somewhat of an inconvenience then they can cut down the meat consumption from their diets and also convince others around them to cut it down as well by letting them know all the issues with the meat industry.