This blog post was created to inform readers about our research project and the collaboration involved in the project. This post was co-written by myself and Danielle McCleery.  

    So far, our project is coming along great. At first, we had a very broad topic in mind and Professor Mangini helped us make it more specific. We were interested in food labels on meat and what they mean to consumers. This topic was broad because we would have to cover every label in each different supermarket. Narrowing our project down to Whole Foods Stores gave us a focus point and a finite source to go in depth on.
      Looking over the Whole Foods website in class last week gave us a lot of information. We learned about their 5- step rating process for meat and poultry. Getting a good understanding of some of the workers of Whole Foods and their meat is important for us to ask the right questions in order to receive information useful to our project. Using those questions, we are going to visit a Whole Foods store and interview a butcher and another employee.
Our collaboration process has been going great so far. We have been emailing each other back and forth and will be setting up a Google doc next. Up through this point our process has been very dialogic. We have shared in all the responsibilities and are working very well together!