Lesson 11

I had dismissed two articles for my essay because I did not think that they provided enough information. One article in particular was about how a town came together to buy and produce food locally. Even though my essay is about the industrialized food system in America, I just did not think that it pertained to my essay. After rereading it again for this assignment made me think that by how this community came together to buy and produce food locally it boosted their locally economy. It created more jobs within their community and it helped family farms stay afloat when a lot of them are going out of business.  Even though it did not talk about the negative side of the industrialized food system it show that by trying to produce and buy locally how it can impact their locally community in a positive way. The second article that I chose not to use for my essay was about an organization that is trying to steer people away from buying industrialized foods and to try and buy more locally. I chose not to use this for my essay because it I just thought that this article did not provide enough information that I needed. After rereading the article again I actually found some information that I was able to use. It also help me include information that I previously was not going to discuss in my essay and that was the impact the industrialized food system had on local communities and local family owned farms. Because of the industrialized farms are mostly owned by corporate companies, family owned farms cannot compete with their prices and are often times forced to sell their land to farm corn and soybean or just simply shut down all together. If they have to shut down this not only effects them, but it also effects members of their community by people who may have worked on the farm not having a job and may end up having to move. So I am glade that I was able to give this article a second chance because if I had not then I would have not been able to discuss this side of the food system in my essay. Neither of these articles were difficult for me to understand they just did not provide enough information that pertained to my essay at the time when I was researching.