Normally a rainy day would mean people stay home and indoors but the small agricultural town of Goondiwindi on the Queensland border is a buzz with people. The wet weather is most welcome and gives farmers and others who would normally be out in paddocks the chance to come to town and run errands‚ shop and grab a coffee. One such person is local agronomist Leigh Norton. The rain has meant that he is spending his time in the office catching up on paperwork. The 30 year old agronomist who is employed
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From past essays such as one from Camille Kingsolver‚ “Taking Local on the Road”‚ locally grown food has been the topic of conversation. Kingsolver lived on a farm and was a strong advocate of purchasing locally grown food. Perhaps there was bias due to her parents’ business and had ignored the counter-argument. Stephen Budiansky wrote the essay “Math Lesson for Locavores” in which he interjects a new perspective on the debate of locally grown food. His stance is that locally grown foods are not
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just looking at this we can see that local farming is very beneficial. But not only it is fresh and cheap‚ it supports the locals and reduces the environmental cost. First‚ it is beneficial for the consumers. Typical vegetables and fruits are usually picked 4 to 7 days before the distribution so in this period the products are kept in the freezing facilities. However‚ when you freeze the vegetables‚ their quality goes down. On the other hand‚ local farming provides fresh newly picked foods to the
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While standing in the grocery store in front of different colorful and ripe foods from all around the world‚ decisions have to be made on which to buy‚ depending on their value. All the local foods will obviously be picked by the locavore people. The locavore movement is composed of people who have decided to eat locally grown or produced products as much as possible. Sustainability and nutritional factors are all added into this concept. Locavorism has positive and negative aspects to it‚ however
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Jessica Fernandes has a life experience‚ personality‚ current activities‚ and future educational goals that point to a doubtless success in the vegan food business. She was born in Brazil‚ but moved to the United States at six years of age. Growing bi-cultural‚ besides of having contact with many other ethnicities‚ gave Jessica Fernandes a broad perspective of choices of food. Besides the various cultural influences‚ Jessica was impacted on her concept of food by the consideration that
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#1-2 Katherine Spriggs has convinced me that buying local is important and should be done. She persuades the audiuence that buying local greatly improves the local economy‚ is better for the enviroment through lessening green-house gas emissions and that it is healthier for the soil and land through producing different crops which benefit the soil in different ways‚ encourages polycultural farms‚ and that it uses less natural rescources for shipping like fuel and energy. She establishes the importance
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Thoreau’s essay “Wild Apples" is an overview of the past‚ present‚ and future of apples‚ including wild apples. He discusses the way apples are cultivated‚ their appearance‚ their taste‚ and their qualities. Furthermore‚ throughout “Wild Apples”‚ Thoreau responds to “why wild apples are significant?” . He discusses the ways apples are the most refined from other crops‚ the bond several animals have with apple trees‚ and their significance in early history. According to Thoreau‚ apples are the
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Ethanol Fuel‚ the Green Myth Who in the United States of America does not like a good ear of corn or two to eat? It is a food staple in many of our households throughout this great country and helps to feed the world’s ever growing population. It is also used to produce a biofuel and gasoline fuel additive called ethanol‚ and is being promoted as environmentally friendlier‚ has less of a carbon footprint on the earth then fossil fuels like gasoline and oil do‚ and will fully reduce our dependency
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In E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web‚ E.B. White introduces a few farm animals and some farm pests. In this story a blood-thirsty spider turns out to be the best friend that anyone could ever have. The stubborn pig ends up being very dynamic and lucky by narrowly escaping death multiple times with the help of his friends. The last character is commonly symbolized as selfish and uncaring and Templeton the rat matches his symbolism‚ although he does not learn morals in the story‚ he teaches them. E.B. White
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