Business and Environmental Leadership was very interesting today. We had 3 interesting chapters for our seminar class and the discussion took a very interesting turn. First we had a representative from Acre Gourmet who had many interesting things to say. One if their values is 'community' development which leads them to prefer buying from local independant farmers instead of large agra-business operations. One shocking comment is that a McDonald's burger can contain meat from over 1000 cows b/c of the enormous centralized meat processing plants. mmmm
The Green to Gold chapter was on inspiring a green culture in business and I thought it was quite interesting. However, the student who presented it gave a quick summary and then connected it to her recent experience of traveling to Honduras and being shocked to see McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, and KFC there near the airport. She commented that these businesses corrupt the local culture by offering unhealthful food and eroding the social fabric of interconnectedness in that society.
At first, I didn't see the connection to our topic but the discussion took off like a rocket and carried us for an hour. Many students seemed to resonate with her criticism of large business as somehow responsible for social erosion in the US. And, they all seemed to share a ...
