Final Observations

I have learned a lot about the marketing of food and how people react to the marketing tactics that manufacturers employ. I have also learned a lot about how food ties people together and gives meaning to many other ordinary activities, like spending time with friends and family. This class was an opportunity for me to not only observe the eating practices of others from a distance, but talk about and discuss these eating practices face to face with my classmates. In some ways it actually showed me a brighter side of the American eating "epidemic." By reading other people's posts I had a broader spectrum of people's eating habits even from such a small sampling pool. Because of this class, I will be able to analyze better the eating habits of different people from different cultures, even people within my own culture.