1. One of the most obvious things to come from her writing is the passion that she has about it. she does a good job of showing the author that she has a lot of knowledge about this topic, and she uses various statistics to prove so. She shows the importance of this topic through the serious need for change. Because the effect we have on this world is a great one.
2. She counter argues that sometimes it may be easier to buy food wherever you may find it. But she still really tires to express the importance of supporting local farmers.
3. " On small farms, sometimes a farmer will pasture his cattle in the previous year's cornfield; The cattle eat some of the stubble left from last year's crop and fertilize the field." This quote is especially effective at driving the point that big farms do nothing like this. They keep planting and producing year after year until they strip the land of all nutrients and have to move on. where as she is stating smaller farms are more conservative in the way of doing what is best to sustain the land, and their farms to their best possible ability.
4. A good example of her effective use of pictures would be the comparison between the polyculture and monoculture farms. The monocultural farm is simply just jam packed with the largest amount of produce the can jam pack into the land; with the intent to distribute it as far and wide as their wallets will open. where as, in the polyculture farm, the soil looks extremely fertile, the crops are spread out and bright green, and there are people in the fields. weather working on the farm, or harvesting. The polyculture farm will see more human hands than any monoculture, machine run farm ever would.
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