Lunch localizes student diets
By Tyeisha Prior
On November 7, 2012
Celebrating the theme "Declare Your Interdependence" for National Geography Awareness
Week, Buffalo State's geography and planning department will be holding "Eat Local" from
12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Classroom Building A205 and A209.
Out of three years that the department has been hosting the event, this is the first time the special
luncheon will be closely connected to the theme.
All of the food at the Eat Local event will be provided by local businesses, farmers and
restaurants in Niagara County.
Kelly Frothingham, chair of the geography and planning department, said Eat Local highlights
the interdependence between people and their environment.
Wende Mix, associate professor of geography and planning, said the focus of the event is to get
students to think about their decisions regarding the economy, environment and the community
and how they are all connected to one another.
Mix said she is trying to make the luncheon more special this year.
"In the past, we've had the luncheon, we eat pizza and wings, and they announce the
photography winners (from the GAW contest). This year, my goal is to make the luncheon a
little more special and to the theme," Mix said.
There will also be a debate held by Mix's transportation class debating the pros and cons of The
100-Mile Diet and The Locovore's Dilemma. The class has randomly been split up into two
groups, one supporting the 100-Mile Diet and the other debating for the Locavore's Dilemma.
The 100-Mile Diet comes from a book titled, "The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating," by
Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. In the book, the authors share their experiences on limiting
their diet to only locally grown food for a year and to also restrict them to buy food within a 100-
mile distance from their home.
"The Locavore's Dilemma," a book by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu, argues why
the 100-Mile Diet is not recommended. There are a variety of reasons why the diet is more
dangerous than usual diets.
Students from each group of the debate will also be designing posters to be presented and hung
up on the halls of the Classroom Building.
From the event, Mix said she hopes students understand both arguments and see that what they
eat does have a local impact.
"Like all of our issues today, there's no black and white, there's gray. To say that we're going to
follow one policy and ignore the consequences, it's not a good idea," she said. "I hope they see
there are aspects to the arguments that make sense in a different context."
Frothingham added that it's a chance for students to learn and appreciate geography.
"I hope students participate in Geography Awareness Week activities, so they have the
opportunity to learn more about what geography is and, especially, what we do as geographers in
this department," Frothingham said.
Geography Awareness Week is held every third week in November as an awareness program
dedicated on the importance of geo-literacy and geo-education and is celebrated at many
colleges.
Tyeisha Prior can be reached by email at prior.record@live.com.
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