Food for Thought

Yum and yum again at the Randall Museum.

Café Josephine with its jaw dropping view of the San Francisco skyline offers a jaw dropping menu of fresh-daily soups, salads and sandwiches. The food is worth the trip plus the latest exhibition Food for Thought offers much to ponder as we consider the environmental impact of what we eat and how.

After enjoying sandwiches on the deck, we meandered through the museum interacting with the kid-friendly activity stations that encourage healthy choices for ourselves and for health of our  planet

The Ocean's Food Buffet was serving up a tasty selection of plastic and to our great surprise used the photo of Judith in her red rain coat midst a mess of plastic washed up on to Kehoe Beach. IMAGINE IF THIS WAS YOUR LUNCH.

Our large trawl net, filled with a jumble of plastic pieces and plastic water bottles... loomed overhead. Twinkling lights above cast shadows to enhance the feeling of being deep underwater.

Along the edge of the entrance to the littoral cave were slips of paper, kelp blades, where visitors wrote their promises for the ocean. 

Ryan and Charlotte wrote:

I will always care for the ocean

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We've all seen the heartbreaking images of sea turtles wrapped in plastic bags, or a sea turtles mistaking a floating bag for a jelly fish— a tasty but deadly lunch. YUM!.

Oceans of Plastic. Yes, we've got it. We were pleased to see how the museum design team put our fishing nets, bottle, bags and pieces of plastic to use and how they took to heart several of our messaging suggestions. Giving museum goers and us plenty of food for thought.