Jaquisha Murphy

I never heard of food sovereignty until now entering the ECO Challenge.  To my understanding from the documentaries I watched, food sovereignty encompasses the growing and distribution of food.  It’s about the people who help grow the food,  such as the farmers and workers.  Food sovereignty is about culture, diversity and the environment. It ensures that we have enough food to meet the needs of the people.  I learned in my documentaries that we need our land to grow our food/crops.  It definitely gets deeper than I would’ve thought.  By industrializing food systems, it has put us in kind of a crisis.  It has impacted pricing, poverty climate change and biodiversity loss.  The world wants everything fast and in mass production.  However, it is harming our natural resources

Nurturing your self compassion helps to be more empathetic towards others.  I feel it helps for you to understand and be more compassionate towards others and their feelings.

I experience joy when I am dancing and/or working out.  The movement gets my blood flowing and I feel better physically.  Any physical activity is enjoyable to me.  

I think eating more meat affects the planet and our body.  Animals are a natural resource themselves and we are killing them off.  The planet needs all its creatures to be how it should be.  I think the reason richer countries eat more is because they can afford more.  In other countries they are unable to forward all the products etc and process that comes with meat.  Therefore, they are forced to eat more vegetables and fruits because they can grow them.

Actually I think anything is possible.  If you can feed yourself with organic food you can feed others just the same.  I love organic food.  I had organic vegetables and fruit this week.  They actually taste better to me.  My mother has always purchased organic food. Therefore, I grew up eating that way.  Although everything wasn't organic, most of it was.  

I walked to the store yesterday instead of driving.  It was very refreshing and although a little wet, the air was nice.  It gave me a sense of serenity while feeling the breath of nature.  It was also nice looking at the leaves.