I am planning to write my essay on the importance of local farms. My social science is education, dealing with knowing the negatives of industrialized farming, and knowing the positives of local farms.
My survey has 44 responses, so I feel really good about the information I have received and the amount of respondents. A little over half of the respondents said that they could not name any local farms in their area and the rest said that yes they could or named a farm. 70.5% said that they do not know where their food comes from. Also, 72.7% said that they were aware that industrialized farming has many negative aspects. This part of my survey surprised me because I was thinking that maybe people didn't realize that industrialized farming had so many flaws and negative aspects but turns out that people do know that and still continue to support them. Most people said that they buy the majority of their food at a grocery store (instead of a farmers market). I am now beginning to write my paper!
First suggestion, research why people know so much about industrial farms and incorporate it into your essay. Second, you could potentially create more writing by talking about how you could educate people about some of these issues; assuming you aren't already planning on doing that. Third, not really a suggestion, maybe change your question in your survey dealing with people knowing the negative aspects of industrialized farming so that you don't lead them in a certain direction. Couldn't see your survey so not sure how you worded it. Other than that good work
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