Earth day

Earth Day:

To start off, I never realized how important earth day should be and how we should contribute more time to our planet. I was surprised to see everyone coming together, learning and teaching each other about the importance of earth. Most of us act without thinking about the consequences, I believe that contributing to earth day is a perfect way to open people’s minds and let them know how important it is to think before we act. Planet earth is not a person but it sure can “behave” badly if we don’t take care of it.

My contribution to earth day was informing students about food crisis regarding agriculture in India and in Africa. My poster illustrated pictures of dry crop fields in India and Africa. Nayiri, Karine and I tried broadcasting our information by using humor on the poster; I noticed what mostly “attracted” people was our slogan and our pictures that we stuck on. We presented 15 facts: few facts about water problems in India (poising water), facts about agriculture relating to the farmers well being (famine can be involved) and some facts about crop growing problems (farms and farmers are at risk). Most people knew that in countries like India problems occurred, but what they did not know is that the problems are causing a large number of suicides and famine.

The booth I found appealing was the one where they distributed the Brownies made with no animal “substance”. I never knew that animals contributed to food such as brownies and many more. After hearing all about animals and their contribution towards us, I’ve come to realize that we use and abuse living creatures just to satisfy the selfish human being. Also, I appreciate the effort made in this booth because the people standing in the booth took their time, baked the brownies and gave them out.

Here is a link of "Sugar and Other Sweeteners: Do They Contain Animal Products?"

http://www.jivdaya.org/sugar_and_other_sweeteners.htm


Sofia Zukelman