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What's for Dinner?
The Personal and Political Implications of Our Food
Choices
November 20, 2008
At this program, IU professors Peter Todd (cognitive science) and
Christine Barbour (political science) spoke to
students about how we make decisions about food and what some of the
personal and wider-ranging consequences of these choices are. This
program was co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.
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Students were offered a selection of healthy and less healthy drinks.
Toward the end of the evening, the quantities of each type of
drink that were consumed were tabulated. The most popular choice was
juice, followed
by water, diet
soda, and regular soda.
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Each table had four bowls of snacks for students to eat: one of
regular potato chips, one of baked potato chips, one of
multicolored candies, and one of all red candies. Later in the
evening, student volunteers measured whether students consumed more of
some options than others.
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Students (including HHC students Andrea Wolf,
Tarlie Townsend, and Erika Anderson) enjoy the
snacks at their tables while discussing
the factors they think are important in making decisions about food.
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An unidentified student and HHC student Hannah Kennedy serve themselves ice cream. Ice cream was served from two different
lines:
one with small scoops and one
with large scoops. According to research in the field, the students
with the larger scoops
should have eaten more ice cream, but that wasn't the case for
this group!
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Christine Barbour, a professor in the Department of Political
Science
and a food writer, talks about Slow Food Bloomington, which she
co-directs. Slow Food
Bloomington is part of "an international movement
that emphasizes eating seasonally, regionally, and pleasurably."
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