You Can T Run Away On Harvest Day Analysis

The one thing that remains the same is change is always occurring. As the world changes, so are human beings, especially in the way they are living to cope in the world. A big area of change has been with the aspect of food. Advancements in technology and research has changed the way our food is grown, processed, preserved, and even consumed. Agriculture used to be considered a way to nourish the human race. Now commercial agriculture has put profits over providing nourishment. It has negatively affected our environment as well as the people who are hungry, under nourished and over nourished. Nevertheless, there is still a prevalence of processed and conventionally grown foods, which continues to impact our health and our environment. Therefore,
Although Kingsolver focuses about how cultural or social factors have affected many peoples’ eating habits, especially the vegetarians who dislike eating meat of a killed animal because of their value for life, she believes in the organic methods of food production and processing. For example, Kingsolver states that the products from animals raised in open pasture are better and enhance a sustainable environment (Kingsolver 189). She condemns things like removing habitats, using pesticides and treating animals inhumanely. Most of the current methods of food production she promotes do not put harm the environment. Kingsolver emphasizes using organic techniques of food production and also processing. Kingsolver also does not encourage food production for commercial purposes; instead, she believes in production for subsistence use. This is also supported by Mead who also states that production should be aimed at feeding others. Kingsolver states that organic methods of food production can be achieved by adopting subsistence farming; where a person produces food for own consumption. Specifically, she insists on ‘consuming approximately the same things we produce’ (Kingsolver