1. Spriggs has mildly convinced me that foregoing the year round convenience of fresh produce and buying locally is something to consider, but I think overall her attempt to actually sway me into action is lacking. I'm not too sure what to do with all the information and anecdotes she's provided, and in general I think she wanders off from her main point a few times.
2. One counterargument that she considers is from supporters of buying produce from places where it grows best, as this wouldn't be as wasteful as it would if certain items were grown in climates that cannot support the crop. An other position she mentions is that buying locally can be "detrimental to the environment because small farms are not as efficient in their use of resources as large farms." In both cases she adequately validates each argument but continues to defend her original argument against them with supporting facts she's found from other similar texts.
3. Her last paragraph I feel is thoroughly ineffective. Referring to the features discussed on p. 66, it's hard to clearly determine her position. Is it buying locally and giving up conveniently fresh produce year round, or is it living "greener"? Because it is hard to determine her main point, it's hard to see why this even matters to me.
4. I think her photos are completely useless towards her argument. They are nice to look at, but she doesn't tie them her argument at all. For example she mentions her first picture in a paragraph that talks about how buying locally is environmentally more responsible than supporting a larger farm, and the picture is simply a pile of winter squash; I think that a graph would have been more effective.
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