sometimes i volunteer at an urban farm.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around a village, town, or city. Urban agriculture can also involve animal husbandry, aquaculture, agroforestry, urban beekeeping, and horticulture. These activities occur in peri-urban areas as well, and peri-urban agriculture may have different characteristics. Urban agriculture can reflect varying levels of economic and social development. In the global north, it often takes the form of a social movement for sustainable communities, where organic growers, \u2018foodies,\u2019 and \u2018locavores\u2019 form social networks founded on a shared ethos of nature and community holism. These networks can evolve when receiving formal institutional support, becoming integrated into local town planning as a \u2018transition town\u2019 movement for sustainable urban development. In the developing south, food security, nutrition, and income generation are key motivations for the practice. In either case, more direct access to fresh vegetables, fruits, and meat products through urban agriculture can improve food security and food safety. Community wastes were used in ancient Egypt to feed urban farming.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am fascinated by the concept of urban agriculture. The idea of food production in an urban setting is cool."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am also fascinated but I don't like GM food"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "What concerns you most about GM foods?  Is it that they have had changes made on their DNA, or something?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "GM foods causes cancer and other health challenges "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I didn't realize that any link to cancer or other health issues had ever been proven.  To me, genetic modification is just a natural outgrowth of previous efforts with selective breeding."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It provides food for the growing world population but has it's accompanying issues "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I understand there is a big push to have such foods labeled better, and more well regulated.  Do you agree with this?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I agree with that "}]