One Straw Revolution Evaluation

Nicholas Bellanti

Professor Santos

English 101-042

9 April 2018

The One Straw Revolution 

                          The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka turned out to be a little more      interesting than I thought it was going to be. Personally I agree with a lot of his views on how using chemicals to grow our food is something we shouldn't be doing so often. I feel like Fukuoka's "do nothing farming" is a lot healthier than using all the different types of chemicals that goes into our meat, produce, soil and even the feed for the farm animals. Along with being healthy for humans and nature, he often refers to it as "lazy farming" because the main point is to let nature do all the work, while the farmer does as little as possible when it comes to altering the natural process. Fukuoka believes that as humans we feel the need to take control and we think our way of doing things is better than nature itself and that what we are doing to our food and planet is going to harm us and the whole earth in general. I believe this to a certain extent because I do believe that his way is healthier and that many of the chemicals we use are really unsafe but until I see the yields in real life I don't really know if that type of style can maintain the demand for food in a large modern society unless every single farmer did it and their was more framers that are not bankrupt. If it was the case that It could, then I would support this method completely because the negative side affects of the chemicals we use are apparent. On top of that because our country specifically is so focused on making massive profits that we waste a huge portion of the food we produce. In general I agree with Fukuoka's views and I thought his book gave a really good insight on the benefits to the more nature oriented style of farming while helping to put the spotlight on the dangers of using GMO's and other chemicals when farming.