February 3, 2010

In chapter nine, the author, Michael Pollan addresses and questions the validity of the title "organic" when pertaining to food sold in the super markets. Pollan argues that many of the food companies and producers of the United States that claim to provide "organic" foods are in fact no more "organic" than those of the mass food producers themselves. I agree with Pollan's arguments in this chapter in that stores such as Whole foods over price their foods for essentially the same product you could find at any other grocery store only because the label claims it to be "organic". Growing up on a farm and owning cattle, I don't trust store's claims for "organic" because you never really know where a cow was raised and what it was fed before being placed on the production line. On my farm, I know what foods the cattle ate and the conditions in which they were raised and only then do I consider the food to be truly "organic".

The writer's resource book is very informative in that it helped me understand how one can use visuals in an effective manner in order to support what one is arguing. It also provided a lot of useful tools on how to start a paper and help avoid common fallacies.