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eowyndoodles's review
3.0
It was nice to learn more about agriculture. I like knowing where my food comes from, and I know a lot of "where does your food come from" books are very biased in an opposite way of this book. There were definitely some fear biases here, but it was a different one than normal, and high made it interesting. I agree with what he said, that he is not a writer. This book is written in segments instead of a continuous style, which I would have preferred. It does sort of seem like a collection is for radio pieces. It also would have been nice to hear more about his life, especially in the beginning on the farm. Those were the parts I found most interesting.
This book made me miss 4-H and the fair, although I think my 4-H experiences were an unusual one, as a suburban club that nevertheless had a lot of livestock projects. But I think it is good to know where your food comes from and know that you are eating an animal when you are eating meat.
I disagreed with some of his opinions, especially regarding environmental issues and vegetarianism, and the conjunction between them. I think he has a tendency to draw false ditchotomies which might be missed on radio, (idk) but they really bothered me. I tried to be open to different opinions but the false ditchotomies in the 100 pages of Samuelson Sez really bothered me.
But I think this was a good thing to read and understand expand my horizons that way. It was a topic I think I should know more about--the agricultural business and the business aspects of it--but I don't think this was the best book to learn about it, at least not the way it was written. I much prefered Kings of California.
This book made me miss 4-H and the fair, although I think my 4-H experiences were an unusual one, as a suburban club that nevertheless had a lot of livestock projects. But I think it is good to know where your food comes from and know that you are eating an animal when you are eating meat.
I disagreed with some of his opinions, especially regarding environmental issues and vegetarianism, and the conjunction between them. I think he has a tendency to draw false ditchotomies which might be missed on radio, (idk) but they really bothered me. I tried to be open to different opinions but the false ditchotomies in the 100 pages of Samuelson Sez really bothered me.
But I think this was a good thing to read and understand expand my horizons that way. It was a topic I think I should know more about--the agricultural business and the business aspects of it--but I don't think this was the best book to learn about it, at least not the way it was written. I much prefered Kings of California.
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