Thoughts on Chapter 4

     The initial opening paragraph of this chapter, while not entirely relevant to the main topic the class covers, shows the widespread adverse effects the US government had on other regions in their "war on communism" and how destructive it was for the citizens of those affected regions. I personally do not agree with communism but I also strongly disagree with the decisions the US government had made and the willingness of them to sacrifice innocent lives to fuel their war. This may not directly correlate with the topic but I believe it is still a strong point that not many people think about or get to see. Now, I do want to say that along side the African American population being discriminated at the time, the Asian population in the US received just as much if not more discrimination during the period as propaganda circulating targeted Asians and painted a picture which dehumanized them, I believe the disproportionately high infractions received by Asian farmers at the time were deliberate attempts at directly targeting them because of the widespread misinformation and fearmongering. The chapter goes on to point out the importance of polyculture crops as each chapter before had with each ethnicity having naturally incorporated it into their growing tactics, this goes to show the vast importance of polyculture crops and rotations over soil stripping monoculture crop methods.