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    1. Nayab_Qureshi02 17 Oct 2020
      The growing of the arugula is indeed organic, but almost everything else is late-capitalist business as usual.

      This line goes to answer Shapin's question he posed a couple of paragraphs back ( why it matters). Questioning why this is important. It's very interesting because he shines light on the idea that something being organic, should be in line with moral and ethical standards. This is what Shapin is showing here. There is no ethical standard, only the food is organic - and that's pretty much it.

    2. Nayab_Qureshi02 17 Oct 2020
      Finally, Pollan decides to eat a meal—“the perfect meal”—for which he had almost total personal responsibility: wild morels foraged in the Sierra foothills, the braised loin and leg of a wild pig he had shot himself in Sonoma County, a chamomile tisane made from herbs picked in the Berkeley Hills, salad greens from his own garden, cherries taken by right of usufruct from a neighbor’s tree, sea salt scraped from a pond at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, and—O.K., strict perfection is unobtainable—a bottle of California Petite Sirah, presumably organic. This was not a way of eating that Pollan thinks is realistic on a routine basis, but he wanted to test what it felt like to have “a meal that is eaten in full consciousness of what it took to make it.” That consciousness, for Pollan, is more religious than political—every meal a sacrament. “We eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world,” he says.

      This part - I love this paragraph so much. There is so much shade and shows how Pollan eats his food. It's so funny to see the author use Pathos in this way - by throwing shade. But the author agrees that is a little too much. Shapin also states how it's more religion rather than political. He also uses Ethos in this paragraph by using Pollan as an example.

    3. Nayab_Qureshi02 17 Oct 2020
      “I just hang on to the fact that my job is good in some larger sense,” she says on the corporate Web site. “If people buy the sprouts, they’re eating healthier foods, the farmer is doing well, and it’s good for the planet because they’re grown organically.”

      Shapin here uses this quote for pathos. Making the consumer feel proud when they buy organic, that they are saving the earth, saves the ecosystem etc. Shapin also uses ethos stating who says this quote and tells s it's a graduate. I find this effective because it states the opinion of a worker which we can find trustworthy.

    4. Nayab_Qureshi02 17 Oct 2020
      You saw this style in action when, in 1989, a “60 Minutes” exposé about residues of the carcinogenic pesticide Alar found on apples caused a consumer stampede to the organic-produce bins. “Don’t panic, buy organic,” was the mantra, and growers responded by borrowing heavily to expand their organic enterprises.

      Here Shapin uses all three appeals to convey the idea of organic food to the reader. Ethos - uses a very credible and trustworthy source "60 Minutes". Logos - stating that pesticides had been found on apples that are not organic. Lastly, Pathos - feeding into the fear the people have regarding food. Using that to their advantage to advertise eating organic food. It's actually really cool to see how he uses all three of these here. I find them to be very effective.

    5. Nayab_Qureshi02 17 Oct 2020
      “Organic,” then, isn’t necessarily “local,” and neither “organic” nor “local” is necessarily “sustainable.”

      Adding on to my previous annotation, I find this to be very effective because the first few paragraphs Shapin explains the ideals of the industry of 'organic food' what is associated with it, what people think - then e goes on to explain why this matters.

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