Melissa Briggs
11/22/10
During our reading over the weekend, Kingsolver discusses issues such as Genetic Modification and hybridization, the difference between supporting local farmers or large companies such as Dole Inc., and which plantations are more economically productive, small family farms or big industrial farms. She really gives a lot of information regarding the differences between supporting the local farmers and issues with large farming corporations. Another topic that Kingsolver discussed was about tobacco farmers. She grew up around many tobacco plantations, and has a hard time realizing that tobacco is slowly going extinct and is affecting many small families that produce the crop, even though she knows that tobacco is chemically altered after leaving the plantation and is a large cause of cancer from smoking. Kingsolver also mentions the different crops they can grow on their farm and what times of the year the vegetables are in season.
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