Blog 5

Access to Healthful Foods among an Urban Food Insecure Population: Perceptions versus Reality 
What does the relationship of residents' perceptions of food access and food found in surrounding stores reveal about participants' level of nutritional education? 

The relationship of residents’ perceptions of food access and food found in surrounding stores seems to reveal that participants’ were relatively aware of the food insecurity that exists in their community.
They understood that there was no access to healthy foods within a one mile radius of their residence which suggests that their level of nutritional education was relatively high. 

Feeding People versus Saving Nature?  
Is some degree of anthropocentrism mutually exclusive from green values? Can anthropocentric actions preserve and renew natural environments and make a greener world? Why or why not?

Anthropocentrism is defined as "the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet" which immediately sounds like it would be somewhat contradictory of green values. However, to a certain degree, I do not believe that Anthropocentrism and green values are necessarily mutually exclusive. If someone believes that human beings are the most significant species on the planet and wish for that species to continue to populate the earth far into the distant future, then it is obvious they will need an earth for said humans to populate. This could therefore align that person's priorities with those of someone with green values who is looking to preserve and renew natural environments, since preservation of the planet is essential to future human life. So, although the idea of anthropocentrism may not necessarily be "green", some anthropocentric actions could potentially serve to make a greener world.