In the book, the author lists the inventory of the things that her freezer had together with the Mason Jars in January. She tells stories about the various courses and corrections that they did to make their experiment work. With lots of humor and aplomb, Kingsolver spends much of her effort to explain the reactions that her family had on the experiment. Throughout the book, Kingsolver builds her argument on various facts (Kingsolver, Kingsolver, & Hopp, 2007).

When Kingsolver with her family decide to leave Arizona, they are not only going on a physical journey miles away but also a journey that will expose them to a different kind of life. Therefore, trying such thing as Kingsolver did would be difficult.

The facts that are listed above are because of the Government policy that requires tax dollars for food production. The decision that Kingsolver and her family took represented an aspect of food heresy within North America. Information that Kingsolver passes forward is that about seventy-five percent of antibiotics which are used in the US are utilized by operations of animal feeding. She states that Americans take close to 400 gallons of oil for one citizen annually with respect to feeding. She also reveals that, being on the second place after automobile industry, food industry ranks as the second largest fossil fuels consumer in the US. She clearly states that each item or ingredient in an American mean must have been transported more than 1500 miles distance before one can put the food on the mouth. Thus, Kingsolver brings up certain important facts. Kingsolver decided to do things differently because the United States of America was widely characterized by preference of fast foods or foods bought from restaurants that are already cooked for consumption. They would only buy food that they could not make from their own farm but the purchase would only be done locally. Kingsolver along with her husband and two daughters decided to head to Virginia to engage in animal keeping gardening, canning, freezing and cooking from scratch. The objective of this travel was to spend a full year living on food that they would grow or purchase directly from farmers in the local farmer markets. The latter pervades her memoir cum investigative nonfiction narrative that is a funny, faithful and though provoking account of a year that Kingsolver and her family moved from Tucson, Arizona and headed to a farm in Southwest Virginia. As Kingsolver states, they say that all stories begin with the two following phrases: “A stranger came to the town” and “I set out upon a journey” (Kingsolver, Kingsolver, & Hopp, 2007). The book is a nonfiction narrative that opens the reader’s eyes to see an old truth in many different ways. Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver wrote the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A year of Food Life.

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