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In this unit of Food For Thought we were discussing death and how food surplus effects it in many ways. In class, we have been talking about issues/conflict that had happened in history that has been caused by the food we also looked at an article about the Irish potato famine. We also defined what monoculture and polyculture are and how they might affect the agricultural world especially when you have a low food supply. For this AP we were assigned to pick a topic that food surplus effects. I chose to do salinization when choosing the topic of our choice we get to look up certain historical events that involve what we chose and we get to the significance of the concern.   You Can't Say You Are Saltier Than Salinization from GCE Lab School on Vimeo . Script: You can’t say you are saltier than salinization. Salinization is the process of which salt accumulates in the soil it is a concern for many reasons. The reason why it concerns us is that it affects the g

In this unit we were focusing on cooking and different ways we are able to interpret the nutrients and food labels when it comes to cooking. In this unit we also went to a farm called Patch Work Farms and got to see how crops and herbs grow and the process they have to go to through. For this unit in the AP we decided to make different kinds of bread such as yeast, commercial, sourdough, etc. We focused on the leavening agents and how they might affect the bread and what they do to benefit the dough. We also looked at the ingredients and the nutrition labels for the recipe. Through this experience I noticed that there are many things we don't acknowledge when we are cooking such as the fats, sodium, and the calories. SR.Yeast.2018