Review of Readings Due Monday by 11:59 pm

First of all, I will sum up what I got from the Omnivores Dilemma. Most of what Pollen was talking about was his experiences in visiting a corn farm in Iowa. While there, he learned more and more from the rather intelligent farmer, Nayler, about what the corn surplus is doing to America's food production, consumption, distribution, the farmers, and the corn industry itself. Because of the invention of fertilizer, farmers are able to produce many times the amount of corn/acre than 50 years ago. This surplus is a huge problem because of all the subsidies the government is paying out to farmers. The reason farmers keep producing as much corn as possible even though they are not making as much as they are spending to grow it is because the presence of cash-flow is what is keeping them afloat. I agree that this is really bad cycle and a big problem.
"They Say, I Say" in chapters 1-3 spoke mostly about starting out a writing piece with what others say on the subject. Doing so makes it much easier for the readers to follow what your saying and know why your saying it in the first place. A good example the book gives is to find out what others say against or for a particular subject, then after stating how those people feel and what their evidence is, the author then should work at proving why they are right or wrong and back it up with sound arguments and evidence. If you don't put what others have to say about something in the text it makes it really hard to justify why your posing the views that you are posing. So, it is best to put what others have to say on the subject either at the very beginning or near the beginning.

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