Melissa Briggs
1) Camille discusses potatoes and their nutritional values in her excerpt at the end of chapter sixteen. Potatoes grown in the United States are the most pesticide-contaminated vegetables, containing DDT, dieldrin and chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides. Did you know that potatoes contained a lot of these hazardous chemicals? If not, does it make you second guess eating potatoes? Do you think the effects of ingesting these hazardous chemicals may be long-term, if there are any?
2) Kingsolver mentions their 8-month abstinence from citrus fruits; how hard to you think it would be to give up certain foods from your diet, even though you are becoming “greener”? Do you think that eventually you would give up from the lack of fruit?
3) The farmers’ market closed down for the winter in chapter seventeen. Kingsolver states that the relationship with the other farmers will be missed until spring. Do you think the farmers find other jobs for the winter? If so, would you think that it paid more than harvesting and selling their crops at the market? Do you believe that farmers harvest because it is self-fulfilling, raising the crops through its entire “life process”?
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