Introduction: Our assignment was to document every meal and snack that we consumed throughout the course of one day and discuss our thought process involving the ethics behind this. I chose to track what I ate on Wednesday, December 7th.

Reflection: Before this day I didn't really think much about what I ate on a daily basis. I noticed that I put more thought into where my food was coming from and if it is ethically right or wrong to be eating what I was. Before doing this project I thought that it would be easy to determine if it was ethical or not to eat something. However, when it came to actually doing the project I learned that there is no clear answer to if something is okay or not. This is a concept that I struggle with because I am someone that likes to have concrete answers. The process for determining if something is ethical or not varies from person to person. Everyone's moral principles are different depending on their culture and worldviews.

Personally, I tend to believe that I am a relativist when it comes to my ethical values. This is a very broad term however, in most situations I find myself looking at all perspectives of a topic before making a decision on whether something is ethical or not. I think this is why it may have been difficult for me to determine if what I eat in a day is ethical. In general, I consider myself someone who believes that the entire ecological system has value, also known as an ecocentric, however, with my food consumption, I typically factor in my own health and happiness over anything else. This means that sometimes I value my own needs over those of the animals or plants that I am consuming, one may say that this is a form of anthropocentrism. While I don't actually believe that only humans have intrinsic value, I do eat like this. I don't know exactly where most of the food that I consume comes from, meaning I am most likely eating animals that could have been mistreated or fruits and vegetables with chemicals in them. Overall, this project has shown me that I could be more aware of what I put in my body. I don't love that I am not ethically correct in most of the food that I am consuming. From now on, I see myself putting more thought into where I am getting my food from and working towards eating like an ecocentric rather than an anthropocentric.