Food Review for Ethics and Ecology 350

At our last class, our classmates were very kind in bringing us an assortment of things to eat for breakfast. I am very grateful to them. This blog has no reflection on the people themselves, I am simply attempting to truthfully respond to the following prompt: "Write a food review of one of the meals served at our last class meeting from the point of view of a restaurant critic who is highly conscious of ethical and ecological concerns". 

On September 18th, 2009 I had the privilege of dining with an Ethics and Ecology class at Lewis-Clark State College. They had an array of things for us to eat for breakfast. As far as I could tell, nothing was homemade, it was all store bought. The food tasted delicious. There was banana nut bread, two types of scones, a vegetable tray, oranges, bananas, and bottled water. It was all very good but as I stated before, all store bought. It seemed that it all came from Albertson's grocery store so I began to research that store. On the website, "www.betterworldshopper.org" I found that Albertsons ranks as a "C' or average score on a series of criteria. The criteria include a responsibility to: human rights, the environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice. A ranking of a "C" on this scale means that they either have "mixed social and environmental records or insufficient data to rank them". So according to this website, as a class, we could have done things a bit more ethically and environmentally friendly. Also, it would be much more environmentally sustaining to drink out of reusable water bottles rather than disposable plastic bottles.