Jonathan Rauch's Will Frankenfood Save The Planet

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In “Will Frankenfood Save the Planet” by Jonathan Rauch he claims in paragraph ten that “The point is not that farming is an environmental crime—it is not—but that there is no escaping the pressure it puts on the planet.” Rauch supports his claim by first describing organic farming, he included one way that organic farming doesn’t harm the environment it doesn’t use artificial fertilizer than one way that it does it uses manure which can contaminate food and pollute water. He then moves on to traditional farming and how “traditional farmers use less herbicide, but they also do more ploughing, with all the ensuing environmental complications.” The last support Rauch uses is about low-input agriculture following the same pattern by stating the