Spriggs reading

1. It is quite obvious that she cares about this subject. She makes it sound so important by pointing out the many benefits to buying locally, and the issues that our massive food industry has today. A big soft spot for many readers is global warming and environmental issues. She points out that our current way of growing and shipping food is horrible for the environment, and that buying locally would take away a lot of the shipping cost, and oil cost. She establishes using facts and statistics: for example she states that by 2030, as a result of global warming, there will be no more ice glaciers in Glacier National Park. Facts like these are staggering, and bring about a sense of cause in the reader. It sure made me want to buy local more.
2. She considers many counter arguments to this topic. She shows how many people argued that local growing is worse for the environment, but she shut that down with facts and statistics proving otherwise. She also used a personal account of a farmer who worked on their land. He talked about how the growth of monoculture farms, and how they are ruining the business of small sized farms polyculture farms.
3. On the end of the first page, she writes about the global warming issue, and how the U.S. is one of the leading contributors to this problem. She doesn’t propose much opposition to this, because in the science community, global warming is undeniably a large problem. She gives us statistics about the U.S.’s fuel emissions, as well as our large amount of waste. She made it clear that global warming matters because it could likely be the fate of our world. Her evidence was strong and clear, using scholarly predictions and statistics. She didn’t pay much attention to the opposition, because rightfully there shouldn't be one.
4. The photos contribute to the argument by creating context to her words. The descriptions below them are helpful in the reader’s understanding of the topic. She compares photos of a monoculture and polyculture farm, and how they are noticeably very different. She also gives an example of what it looks like to shop at a local farmer’s market.