[10. Feb. 2018] Saturday meeting topic Questions Only !
Howdy ! It's me Scarlett !
This week we have 4 categories of topics. Do not be obsessed with all the articles
too much. Just pick some articles what you have interests and prepare your opinions
related to those articles. :) Detailed lists are as follows.
◈ GMO & Food Security :
---- Organic products
---- Should Genetically Engineered Foods Be Labeled?
◈ Virtual reality :
---- Chinese women are spending millions of dollars on virtual boyfriends
---- Surrogates review
◈ Korean History & Prejudice :
---- South Korea Timeline : A chronology of key events
---- Black-and-White Thinking in our Social Worlds
◈ Cities and Urbanization :---- Why urban farming is changing the future of agriculture.
Hope you enjoy the topics.
With luv
Scarlett
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Small talks : Organic products(=food)
Should Genetically Engineered Foods Be Labeled?
< Questions >
Q1. Talk about what you have eaten today.
Q2. What is the most unhealthy food you can think of?
Q3. Do you think that a person’s eating habits affect how long they will live?
Q4. Do you keep a healthy eating habit? When you choose what you are eating, what is your priority?
Q5. What do you know about GM foods? How about organic food?
Q6. Do you think that organic food is much better than normal food or are they about the same?
Q7. Would you choose GM food for you meal? What is the reason for your choice?
Q8. How do you think about the 'Label it movement' in America? Is it necessary or not? Do you think that GE foods should be labeled in Korea?
Q9. What are the advantages and disadvantes of GM food?
Q10. According to an article, GM foods is cheap but they can cause your children allergic response. Would you buy GM foods for your kids?
Q11. Have you ever grown your own food in your garden? How do you think about the rooftop garden?
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Chinese women are spending millions of dollars
on virtual boyfriends
Surrogates review
< Questions >
Q1. What did you think when you read the headline?
Q2. What is your favorite app, and why?
Q3. What do you think of this dating app?
Q4. What do you think of virtual boyfriends and girlfriends?
Q5. Have you ever obsessed with human relationships in online instead of real world? What is wrong with it?
Q6. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of 'Virtual reality'?
Q7. Have you ever watch the movie 'Surrogates' starring by Bruce Willis? What do you think of the society with surrogates?
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South Korea - A chronology of key events Black-and-White Thinking in our Social World
< Questions >
Q1. What was the most memorable event in Korean history?
Q2. Please name 3 events that you think important in our history.
Q3. Do you have any role model in our history? Who is that person? Why did you pick that public figure? What do you want to learn from him or her?
Q4. What is the most important value for you between the Development and the Distribution?
Q5. According to this article, we tend to over-simplify stimuli in our social worlds - seeing things that could be conceptualized as complex and nuanced as simple and categorical. For instance, in many ways, we divide people into the category of “on my team” or “not” per the powerful ingroup/outgroup phenomenon. How about you? Do you have similar over-simplifying experiences as above example suggested by dividing the group of people as your friends or foe?
Q6. What is meant by splitting(all-or-nothing thinking)?
*** Splitting (also called black-and-white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking) is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both positive and negative qualities of the self and others into a cohesive, realistic whole. It is a common defense mechanism used by many people.
Q7. We need organized history for 'Social justice'. However, sometime people go too much. People pursue the 'Social Justice' while they are ruining the procedural justice. Do you think Korean politicians are enormously obsessed with the past and splitting thinking? What is the required attitude for brightening Korea future and for the citizen?
*** Procedural justice is the idea of fairness in the processes that resolve disputes and allocate resources. One aspect of procedural justice is related to discussions of the administration of justice and legal proceedings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_justice
Q8. What is the most important value for our peaceful and brightening future Korea and Korean citizen?
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Why urban farming is changing the future of agriculture
< Questions >
Q1. Have you ever heard about the urban farming? Could you explain this concept?
*** Urban Farming
The North American Urban Agriculture Committee defines it as:
"The production, distribution and marketing [and disposal] of food and other products within the cores and edges of metropolitan areas. Urban agriculture is a complex activity, addressing issues of food security, neighborhood development, environmental sustainability, land use planning, agricultural and food systems, farmland preservation, and other concerns."The USDA National Agricultural Library notes:"Around 15% of the world's food is now grown in urban areas. City and suburban agriculture take the form of backyard, roof-top and balcony gardening, community gardening in vacant lots and parks, roadside urban fringe agriculture and livestock grazing in open space."For the purposes of this website within the context of EPA's Brownfields and land revitalization program, urban agriculture can include public, community and private community gardens as well as larger scale urban farms or orchards as well as growing herbs, spices, flowers for market, raising chickens or livestock, and keeping bees. Urban agriculture may also include growing crops for animal feed or bedding, as well as non-food crops for landscaping, flower gardens, seed, bulb or plant sale, oil, fragrance, dye, biofuel and fiber.Particular concerns regarding soil contaminants and exposure risks that present issues for in-ground gardens and farms may be avoided where hydroponic, roof-top gardens or farms or vegetated walls or other structures using controlled growing medium and limited soil contact. source: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/frequent-questions-about-brownfields-and-urban-agriculture
Q2. What is the Organic Farming Scheme?
*** The Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) is an Agri-environment package which supports conversion to organic production. OFS agreements run for a period of five years during which you are committed to farming according to organic standards and remaining certified by an organic certification body.
source: https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/articles/organic-farming-your-questions-answered
Q3. Do you think that technological development driven innovation can tackle the food security issue?
Q4. What would be the benefits and side effects of urban agriculture?
Q5. If you can raise one product in your roof top, what would it be?