OBOC is LAVC's common read program. Each academic year, a new book is selected, which is read throughout courses and across disciplines. The OBOC initiative cultivates opportunities for creativity, scholarship, critical thinking, and academic dialog. It creates a shared intellectual experience for students, faculty, administration and staff.
Students may upload their own work to the Showcase's Padlet. If you need any help uploading, email your project to bienar@lavc.edu.
All student work must be uploaded by midnight Monday, May 17.
How it Works: LAVC students, faculty and the larger community can view the projects at the Padlet link and -- if they'd like to -- comment upon them.
Student Prizes:
A. Most Creative
B. Best STEM
C. Best Equity Themed
D. Best Written
The winner in each category gets:
one (1) LA Valley College T-Shirt
one (1) LA Valley College Water bottle
and one (1) Amazon gift card
Winners will be announced in the afternoon of May 19th.
The Library has ten copies of Eating Animals available as an ebook. If ten patrons are viewing the ebook simultaneously, there will be no copies available to view. Should you experience this issue, we recommend checking back later. A Library login is required to access the ebook off-campus.
Meatpacking was already a dangerous job for California workers. The pandemic made it worse (LA Times, September 2020)
Meat Consumption Through the Lens of the Coronavirus: The End of Meat is Here
In this May 2020 New York Times Op-Ed, "Eating Animals" author Foer reflects on Eating Animals in the current moment.
"Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.
Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important" --jacket copy
"Sensitive to the centrality of food in culture and family life, Foer, author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), frames his first nonfiction book within the story of his Holocaust survivor grandmother’s complex relationship with food and his response to fatherhood ... An indelible book that should reach a diverse audience and deepen the conversation about how best to live on a rapidly changing planet" -- Booklist
Thanks to every student who participated in our our annual Student Work Showcase! This year's winners are:
Each winner receives a $25 Amazon gift card donated by the LAVC Library, as well as an LA Valley College T-shirt and LAVC Water Bottle donated by the ASU.
Couldn't make the November 18 event? Not to worry! Watch the recording and get all the recipes.
The documentary film Eating Animals, produced by Jonathan Safran Foer and featuring Natalie Portman, is available through Alexander Street (off-campus viewing requires a Library login).
Alice Waters, Natalie Portman, and Jonathan Safran-Foer. Image credit: Vanity Fair.
Faculty may embed this video in Canvas, bypassing the need for a Library login. Follow these steps.
