How does the author respond to the counterargument, "the enormous and expanding use of pesticides is necessary to maintain farm production"? Check all that apply. She states that overproduction, not maintaining production is the problem. She includes facts and statistics as evidence in support of her rebuttal. She plays on the audience's fear of food shortage to elicit an emotional response. She concedes that, in some states, farms need help battling insect attacks. She quotes a relevant, expert source on the topic.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination