His tone in the piece, the quotes he includes, the facts and statistics that he uses to establish his authority and credibility, and his way of arguing his point without pushing the reader to choose a side, all lead up to his main argument on the banning of junk-food. Saletan expresses himself so well, that I have a hard time disagreeing with him and can understand why he brought this debate into the public view. His ethos are spread throughout the article and established clearly. He believes health advocates are overreacting by comparing milk, French fries, and pizza to soda, jelly beans, and gum. Saletan also believes in individual and personal responsibility.
Another example is that fast food is unhealthy, how would we suppose to know this. Zinczenko also agrees by saying, “Advertisements don’t carry warning labels the way tobacco ads do” (7). So are we suppose to assume that fast food is unhealthy, that does not make sense at all. These are some of the arguments made by consumers. Although the consumers’ arguments are convincing they have their flaws.
For example, the food marketing companies usually uses the attractive poster about fast food to get the attention of the kids. Moreover, the author also used some kind of emotional language such as he said that banning the junk food is “misguided and ineffective”.He also tried to give more some reasons to demonstrate that food marketing is not a serious matter of childhood obesity. He said the young people prefer using the internet more than watching TV. In addition, the average number of ads also decreased from 18 in 1977 to 13 in 2003, but he was not right about it. In the
Through constant images of overweight individuals paired with grease-drenched fast food, the film conveys a certain sense of guilt within the audience for the obesity rate that many countries view that plagues are country. These certain images work to reveal to the audience that people should begin to realize and stop the amount of non-healthy foods consumed by the individual as well as the population as a whole. In “Cafeteria Consciousness”, Anna Lappe attempts to tap into the audience’s pathos through her addition of global warming. In her attempt to connect the idea she was writing on
In Ellen Goodman’s essay, “In Praise of a Snail’s Pace”, Goodman expresses her opinion against the losing art – face to face communication. Throughout her essay, she clearly claims that with technology, communication has sped up; but at the cost of losing personal touches our predecessors valued. Like Goodman says,” the lack of personal communication is likened to serving Thanksgiving Turkey at a fast-food restaurant.” With instant-messaging, text-messaging, e-mail and the cell-phone, people nowadays have not only massacred the English language, but also lack appropriate attentiveness for true humanly interaction. Goodman’s essay, using light tone and metaphor persuades the readers to agree with her point; she also gives out examples to further
In order to effectively contradicts these claims, the author appeals to the parents by mentioning relative examples such as son’s unemployment and “relinquish[ing] hopes for a charming daughter”. After mentioning these concerns, the author claims that these thoughts are trivial and assures them by stating benefits that the students could acquire such as “variety of professional fields and career paths, [while] molding open-minded, curious problem solvers”. Furthermore, the author ends the paragraph by sentence written in the first point of view of the student, shown through the first quote of “mom and dad”, the author appealed to both students and the parents by assuring them that the author considers both perspectives of the parents and the students. Although the author’s initial rebuttal argument specifically targeted the parents by mentioning reasons that may be their common concern, the author’s sincere purpose was to refute against the conventional thoughts of the parents, not the parents themselves; this structure amplified the effectiveness of message convey as it was written is the relative
I know that if you eat too much acidic food than you can get wicked bad heart burn to the point it feels like your heart is on fire. This movie would definitely change how I eat at Mcdonalds!, no more chicken nuggets for me after I saw how they made them. Morgan had started to have very bad chest pains once he started to eat all of the Mcdonalds in one month. It was hard to believe that there were seventeen different Mcdonalds in New York City in that little town. People say that it is Mcdonalds fault for them gaining weight, but what they don’t understand is that they have the choice wether they should eat it or not, or even how much they eat.
I. Executive Summary In 2006, Greenpeace accused the fast food giant McDonald’s of allowing its supplier Cargill to use soya from deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest for its chicken feed. McDonald’s responded immediately, moving the industry and its suppliers to enact a moratorium on buying soya from this environmentally sensitive land. Although McDonald’s received considerable praise for its rapid actions, it is still far from reaching its sustainability goals (Goldberg and Yagan 2007, p. 7-11). In fact, other sources point to the fact that McDonald’s is much further from these goals than the soya initiative's apparent success would indicate.
Fast Food Babies How would you like to eat fish and chips, pizza, burgers, chocolates, lollies, Pepsi, KFC and several other junk foods filled with unwanted oils and tremendous amounts of fat that eventually will clog up the artery’s and lures you to your death…EVERYDAY!!! Sound delicious? I DON’T THINK SO. Vicki Cooper, famous film director, shows that this is the prime diet of British children in her latest documentary – Fast Food Babies. Cooper emphasizes that the diets choices presented to children is extremely unhealthy and stresses that if parents continue to ignore the dangerous health-issues, it may affect the child’s well-being for life.
They all end up in the same ruling that its the consumers choice to enter a fast food establishment and consume their products. But it is evident that fast food corporations have caused a widespread epidemic within the U.S from their many caused negative effects. This is why society blames and accuses these fast food companies for being responsible for the ongoing obesity crisis, but even though their food is not considered of good nutrition, in the end it’s not fast food companies forcing their customers to consume their products, its free will of society. The modern history of fast food in America began on July 7, 1912 with the opening of a fast food restaurant called the Automat in New York. The Automat was a cafeteria with its prepared foods behind small glass windows and coin-operated slots.