Quotations
‘These are all things that would be wonderfully meaningful work experience for the youth in our community, but you can’t just employ anymore. A host of government regulatory paperwork surrounds every “could come over and help us…?”’
‘Demanding from on high that irradiate all food, register every cow with government agencies, and hire more inspectors does not show strength. It shows fear’
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‘That we’ve become an exercise-machine only culture… is probably setting us for a collision course with newly virulent industrial-strain pathogens at the very time when we are least able to handle them. We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.’
These three quotations represent the main ideas of the author. From the three quotations, one can determine the author’s points of view. One of them is that the author laments the deviation from the traditional way of farming and advocates that contrary to the belief that it is unsafe and unhygienic it is the best since it provides room for nature to balance out things. Another of the author’s ideas that can be obtained from the quotations is his view on government laws and policies on farming. According to the author, government laws and policies are not helpful. Instead they are destructive. He feels that the laws which have been put in place are suffocating since they put too many restrictions on farmers and this hampers them from carrying out their activities. It has also made it hard to involve children in farm work since the law prohibits it. The author thereby suggests that there is need to revert back to the traditional ways of farming since they are the best in terms of building immunity among people and animals.
I selected these three quotations because they adequately represent the author’s point of view in the whole. The author’s main idea in the book is that the traditional ways of farming were better and led to better results and that the laws which have been put in place to improve farming and make it safer for human beings and animals are actually not helpful but lead to more problems. The quotations have significance to the author’s point in the sense that they give a summary of his main arguments. His main arguments are that the way farming was initially carried out was good and there is no need to change it. Another argument is that the laws which have been put in place are not good for farmers and children in general. For example, he blames the laws which prohibit children from taking part in farm work on the high rise of individuals who cannot handle small tasks and who are always bored with life. He argues that taking part in the farm work helps children to gain meaningful experiences that can help to gain knowledge on how to handle situations in their life. In the author’s view, taking part in the farm work, rolling in dirt, and interacting with animals does not promote diseases but help to build immunity. In general, the author is advocating for nature to be allowed to take its course without interference. These three quotations clearly capture this point of view by the author.
