Sonia Faruqi's Agriculture Needs More Women

The article, “Agriculture Needs More Women” is an excerpt from a book named Project Animal Farm. The author, Sonia Faruqi, who traveled around to different countries to find research for her book. Her writing is all personal accounts, which leaves a lot of I-language in her texts. She is very much against the grain and has a lot of opinions supported by self-proclaimed facts. Faruqi uses strong language to sway the reader's opinion with hard-hitting words such as humane, worldwide, and making strong comparisons. While her first few paragraphs are weak and don’t correlate as well with the rest of her writing, her last few pages are strong and show a lot of academic sense and research. The audience is sort of unclear because Faruqi makes so …show more content…
The factory farmers were kind and warm to me, welcoming me into their homes, but they viewed their animals more as edible commodities than animate creatures” (Faruqi), or her stand on basic gender differences in the work field, “. . .the greatest difference between men and women is sensitivity,” (Faruqi). She is attempting to find flaws and differences in studies found in related topics. These arguments aren’t well-balanced, with an uneven scale weighing her work down. The author uses a lot of reputable studies and personal accounts to show credibility. Faruqi uses a wave-like flow to her writing, bringing in new information, then dissecting it in increments, leaving a satisfying feeling. More recently people have been watching what they eat, a new fear of the inhumane ways we treat animals. So having a ‘woman’s touch’ fix things appeals to an animal instinct of ours. “My conversations with agricultural men and women were starkly different. Men tended to discuss costs, breeds, feeds, technologies, companies — profit-minded concepts. Women, in contrast, preferred to talk about their observations of animals, their opinions of them, their experiences with them — more personal concepts”