final TRA &
final application exercise

IMPORTANT: in contrast to previous application exercises, the *REQUIRED NOTES*

• must be typed in 12 pt font w/1" margins, single spaced)
• must fill 3-4 pages
• will be COLLECTED & scored out of 50 points and ADDED to the team ApEx score (50 points).

LOCATE & REVIEW for TRA:

• selected student Worship & Food Culture Reports
  (download from the Learning Modules tab in SacCT and review TERMS sent by email)
• TRA #1-4 (10 questions will reappear on the final TRA)
  

REVIEW PRIMARY SOURCES IN DEPTH for final ApEx:

1. Asian Religions (Unit 1 & related Worship Reports)
2. Western Religions (Unit 2 & related Worship Reports)
3. Modern Farming (TOD, AVM + RDR, 132-74)
4. Modern Food Gathering, Preparation & Eating (AVM, meals in TOD & Food Culture Reports)

PREPARE *FORMAL* NOTES (see left column) addressing the following focus:

Following a major crash in the world economy, fuel prices double over the course of a few months. Food prices increase everywhere, leading to food riots in many major urban areas. As the food industry struggles to meet the demand for food, a rash of lethal food poisoning makes it clear that safety standards can no longer reliably be maintained.

Although many people experience a sense of panic, this crisis also calls forth the kind of inspiringly courageous responses that have been observed in human cultures throughout the ages. Civic planners, food activitists and farmers, many of whom have seen the crisis coming, all step forward to offer their clear visions and practical skills. Here in California, the Governor and Secretary of Agriculture calls for a week-long Emergency Food & Agriculture Convention (EFAC), which will involve working groups meeting to addressing the complex challenges being faced. Invitees include:

• Soil Born Farms and other leaders in the burgeoning sustainable farming movment. (Joel Salatin has been invited to fly in, but is leaning towards teleconferencing given the current fuel crisis.)
• Local leaders in conventional agriculture, many of whom are running industrial organic operations as well. (Blake Hurst will be flying in from Missouri despite the cost.)
• Michael Pollan and other food activists, including the Oakland's People's Grocery movement and LA's South Central Farm Association.
• AgriBusiness and AgriTech leaders represented by UC Davis's College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, including representatives from Monsanto and Dupont.
• EFAC organizers have also offered an open invitation to concerned students and faculty from throughout the state. You are part of a group from the Sacramento State Campus.

Your group has been given a 10 minutes slot at the open forum that will follow several key note addresses on the first day of EPAC. You wish to state your case loud and clear that dynamic thinking about the role of the sacred in relation to contemporary food practices (farming, gathering, preparation & eating) is essential for developing viable solutions. You have heard murmurings that some people think even 10 minutes on this subject is a waste of time ("You've got to be kidding! People are starving!") so you want speak clearly, concisely and with frequent reference to concrete evidence.

FORMAL NOTES: To prepare, gather evidence to show that food-related religious practices provide important models for expanding thinking about the sacred in a way that motivates both religious and non-religious people to engage in sustainable food practices.

Using the above boldfaced terms, your **formal notes** (12 point, 1" margins, single spaced) should clearly label and identify

1. for ASIAN RELIGIOUS PRACTICE (Unit 1 & related Worship Reports)):

(a) people, actions, objects, words and a locale involved in ONE food-related religious practice and explanation of the way that practice inspires thoughts & feelings about unseen powers & forces; and

(b) some evidence of the way people's thoughts & feelings heighten their engagement in that same religious practice.

2. for WESTERN RELIGIOUS PRACTICE (Unit 2 & related Worship ReportS):

(a) people, actions, objects, words and a locale involved in ONE food-related religious practice and explanation of the way that practice inspires thoughts & feelings about unseen powers & forces; and

(b) some evidence of the way people's thoughts & feelings heighten their engagement in that same religious practice.

3. for MODERN FARMING (TOD, AVM + RDR, 132-74):

(a) people, actions, objects, words and a locale involved in ONE modern farming practice, and explanation of the way practice inspires thoughts & feelings about nature as a web of relationships and forces; and

(b) some evidence of the way people's thoughts & feelings heighten their engagement in that same practice.

4. for MODERN FOOD GATHERING, PREPARATION & EATING (AVM, meals in TOD & Food Culture Reports)

(a) people, actions, objects, words and a locale involved in ONE modern food gathering, preparation or eating practice, and explanation of the way practice inspires thoughts & feelings about nature as a web of relationships and forces; and

(b) some evidence of the way people's thoughts & feelings heighten their engagement in that same practice.

5. A COMPARISON of the religious and non-religious examples which explains

(a) the way that the examples of religious practice & reflection in 1 & 2 resemble the modern food practices in 3 & 4; and

(b) the extent to which you would draw on the religious examples to argue that expanded thinking about the sacred is important for motivating both religious and non-religious people to engage in sustainable food practices.

SO, your notes should include a total of TEN sections.

SPECIFICS: as always, include page number references whether or not you quote directly from the readings. If you quote a passsage, be sure to specify its broader context within the source, and also specify which details in the passage you wish to highlight; but note that you may be better off paraphrasing details from different parts of the source and citing several pages numbers.

NO CLASS MEETING, BUT--SUBMIT *OPTIONAL* FINAL PRODUCT (in Assignments tab of SacCT) & BRING PRINTED COPY of Unit 3-4 *Source Analysis* to MND 2016, 2-5 PM
(w/envelope if desired - see below)

**&/OR**

BRING PRINTED COPY OF THE SAW for EXTRA CREDIT (+ submit in Assignments tab of SacCT if you are not doing an essay)

REVIEW IN DEPTH:

Source Analysis worksheet
peer comments
(made sure to include your analysis of comments)
comments on previous Source Analysis

**IMPORTANT: if you don't plan to keep your course reader, rather than recycling it you can DONATE IT TO ME and I'll raffle it off to a student the next time I teach the course.**