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[softer]

I have been doing a lot of landscapes as of late. By a lot I mean that the last two rolls (24 exp total) have been of earth, sky, sunlight, withered plants, broken highway, dilapidated buildings, etc. I suppose that there are a couple of reasons for this, the first of which is that I feel too much like I am photographing the same thing over

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[synergized]

This is an obvious answer (about the meat-packing stuff), but have you read Fast Food Nation? There's a lot in certain sections of the book about that subject in particular, and it's really interesting. It has a lot of really good examples of how migrant workers have been tricked into coming here, about the working conditions in general and for migrant and poor workers specifically. Also, there's been a lot of problems with Tyson, the biggest provider of chicken in the country, and them bringing migrant workers into the country to work in their factories, forging documents, stuff like that. I'm sure you could find out a lot about that by looking online.

I think about that a lot, like who has the luxury to be a vegetarian. & I get frustrated when I get crap from other vegetarians for buying non-organic foods, etc. But when you're living off of loans and have no job, it's kind of impossible to pay two or three times the price for organic products. & if it's hard for me, then I'm sure it's a lot harder for a lot of other people, because I could be a lot worse off.

Anyways. I'm sorry about your fish, and your photography project sounds really interesting. I hope you'll share some of it here, & I hope you've been doing well.

-Leslie

[softer]

I have been skimming through fast food nation but have not sat down and given it a solid read; I will look into the chapters that seem to focus on these issues, thanks for the tip.

As for vegetarianism/organic products--I think the deal with buying organic (I usually can't afford to do this either) is that most organic farms operate under fair trade agreements, so while the marginalized lower classes and students ha cannot necessarily afford organic produce etc, the money that is cycled through at least is redistributed to the farmers. It's really complicated and almost makes me wish that the research paper was required to be longer than six pages.

As for the photo project: thank you for the encouragement. I am incredibly anxious to get started on it but am also incredibly fearful that it will fall flat. If I don't end up sharing it publicly, would you like me to email you some of the images? Would you be open to giving feedback if I were to share them in progress? It would be totally appreciated. Hope you are well, aussi.

marina

[synergized]

I'd love it if you e-mailed me some of your images, and I'd be glad to give you feedback. Good luck with all of your goings-on.

-leslie