In Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" (2007), she discusses her personal experience with self-grown eating and lists people that she met and create relationships with. ... Barbara Kingsolver argues that putting the kitchen and farms back at the center of family life would help diversify the American diet. ... Eating farm grown products were not an issue in the book. ... The plant and animal life is affected by various environmental factors that modify their ecosystem in various ways. ...

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Even pesticides used in farms to save the crops from pests, are harmful. These poisonous chemicals mix with the water used to irrigate the farms and seep through the ground, contaminating the underground water-table. ... Protecting all animals of a biodiversity, not exploiting a particular animal to extinction by hunting for their skin, wool or other animal product shall help us in return. ...

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Most animal feed is not produced locally. ... British Columbia's largest export industry is farmed salmon. ... They also have working farms with unpaid interns who learn the techniques and value of farming (Mortenson, 3). ...

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