1. It is clear the topic matters to Katherine Spriggs and she has done a good job at convincing me that it matters through use of statistics and logic. Spriggs establishes the importance of her topic through tying it to things such as global warming and local economies that most readers will find very important.
2. She considers the view that food she bought from where it best grows because it saves time and energy and she agrees that is true in some cases but that people should strive to buy as much food locally before buying food from elsewhere.
3. When Spriggs says "If strawberries were sold only in the summer, they would be more specfial and we might even enjoy them more," her argument is rather ineffective because it has no real support or logic to it. Whether or not we would enjoy them more or see them as more special is completely subjective, the best evidence she could provide for this would be anecdotal.
4. For example, the two pictures that feature a poly culture and mono culture farm, respectively, do a good job at contrasting the two styles. While the mono culture farm appears lifeless and boring the poly culture farm has people outside and a close up of the crops, making it far more interesting and casting poly culture as a much more humane and relate-able system.
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