Food or Fodder?
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
1-10-2015 12:00 PM
Description
Noel and Jessica Boyle are parents of a severely disabled fifteen-year-old boy, Ciaran, who has been strictly tube fed since he was four years old. Building on their experiences parenting a disabled toddler who loved to eat, they will offer reflections on the importance of food in establishing a sense of community, identity, and inclusion in both the family and humanity more broadly. Drawing from what they learned feeding their son boxed formula for a decade, they will explain the ways in which commercial boxed formulas systematically undermine the role of food in culture and life. Finally, they will share the method they have developed for cooking whole-food tube-feeding formula, partially mitigating the effects of Ciaran’s inability to chew and swallow.
Recommended Citation
Boyle, Noel and Boyle, Jessica, "Food or Fodder?" (2015). Humanities Symposium. 15.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2015/2015/15
Food or Fodder?
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Noel and Jessica Boyle are parents of a severely disabled fifteen-year-old boy, Ciaran, who has been strictly tube fed since he was four years old. Building on their experiences parenting a disabled toddler who loved to eat, they will offer reflections on the importance of food in establishing a sense of community, identity, and inclusion in both the family and humanity more broadly. Drawing from what they learned feeding their son boxed formula for a decade, they will explain the ways in which commercial boxed formulas systematically undermine the role of food in culture and life. Finally, they will share the method they have developed for cooking whole-food tube-feeding formula, partially mitigating the effects of Ciaran’s inability to chew and swallow.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture