1. Organic and local farms are 2. Organic and Local farms
Organic and Local Farming
more efficient with their
land
a. Steven Hopp, an
environmental studies
professor at Emory and
Henry College, points
out that, According to
USDA records from the
1990s, farms less than
four acres in size had an
average net income of
$1,400 per acre. The
per-acre profit declines
steadily as farm size
grows, to less than $40
an acre for farms above
a thousand acres (Hopp
2007).
3.
are environmentally
friendlier
a. J. Schieffer and C.
Dillon, professors in the
University of Kentucky,
found that precision
agriculture (site specific
crop management) has
lead to a larger carbon
footprint (Schieffer &
Dillon 2015). This
means that precision
agriculture is using fuel
and the emissions are
impacting the climate
negatively.
Methods Make Food More
Nutritious
a. Dan Barber, a renowned
chef, discovered that,
The beans gave the soil
nitrogen, and the barley
was there to build soil
structure, the mustard
plants helped cleanse the
soil of pathogens and
diseases. All of this
was to prepare the soil,
to create the best
possible conditions for
that great, amazingly
flavored emmer wheat
(Fassler).
 Organic and Local Farming
Methods
Vs.
Industrialized Farming Methods
Works Cited 4. Industrialized Farming
Methods Cost More When
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a. Hopp claims that at least
Gunders, Dana. Wasted: how
$80 billion dollars, $725
america is losing up to 40
dollars per household,
percent of its food from farm to
are used to subsidize
fork to landfill. National
industrial food
Resource Defense Council,
companies every year in
2012, 1-26.
order to grow, process,
Carlson, Kristine. The benefits
and ship these products,
of eating locally grown foods.
(Hopp 2007). This
The Whole U: University of
means that American
Washington, 1 May 2016,
taxpayers are roughly
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spending an extra $725
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looks cheaper.
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By Adrian Martinez