Learning Journal 3. Group J

Meeting 2nd March at Warmington Tower
Present: Abida, Padraig, Tima

The aim for this meeting was to look over our minimum 500 words each for our sections of the report and make sure we were all heading in the same direction.
Padraig and I did around 600 words each, for the 'background' and 'diagnosis' and we made sure that we did not repeat/contradict each other in what we had written so far.
We helped Tima develop some of her notes for 'long-term reforms'. The majority of this meeting was spent solidifying what Tima should include in her section, we decided that education and the media would be the focal point on how to reform the current vegan movement.
-Education: info about veganism as a lifestyle choice and how it can reduce GHG emissions should be incorporated into subjects such as PSHE, Science and Geography.
-Media: govt money to be spent on advertisements/documentaries/social media campaigns to get the word out there about how harmful the production of animal products is. The media plays an integral force in shaping people's minds, thus if the campaigns are carried out effectively, eventually individuals will be encouraged to become vegan. In time, this will lead to a larger scale structural change.


Meeting March 10th
We met at the library from 3-6pm

The day before was the FINAL FINAL internal deadline for all of us to send our completed sections to Padraig so that he could collate it before we met on Friday. The aim of the meeting was to write the executive summary and the conclusion, as a collective. Instead, we continued to redraft the sections as a lot of it sounded out of place, especially once put with the whole report. We also fixed up spelling and grammar and general sentence coherency and the bibliographies as best as we could with what each person referenced for their section. This took a longer time than we'd anticipated but we got it done in the end. We emailed it to all group members (and CC'd you). The exec summary and conclusion were not done during this meeting, so Bilal and Tima are scheduled to send us all the exec summary on March 12th. Me and Padraig made some notes on the main points that should be included in the conclusion to help Kasai to write it up, and send it by March 12th.