Buying Locally

1.) She hasn't convinced me that it matters, but I can see where she comes from. She used statistics from various sources linking global dilemmas with agriculture. Issues such as pollution, fuel depletion, and the farming market can be resolved by choosing to produce food locally. Transportation will be cut down and more organic and natural methods of farming can be practiced.

2.) She considers the child labor in third world countries being depleted by buying locally, even going to lengths to show how certain boycotts in internationally manufactured clothing affected third world labor, but refutes that by showing how the U.S. can set an example for the global community in acting environmentally sound.

3.) On Page 98, she fails to see the information on the page as possibly horrific; or troubling in the least. Acknowledging opposing arguments, she states how 50,000 children in Bangladesh lost their sweat-shop jobs due to a boycott in the U.S. I feel that Katherine Springs could of examined this disorganized morality and used it as not only attention to more than one point of view, but a stronger stance on the issue of buying locally and a greater indication of why the topic matters.

4.) The photos included in the essay help the reader visualize the text without while minimizing a biased statement based on the images. For how they're involved, they work with Springs by giving definition to her argument.