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.
Food Inc.: Deromanticizing the Food Industry In a society where our meals are all prepackaged, served to us or require very little preparation it’s not surprising that people overlook all the processes these foods go through before they just ‘magically’ appear in front of our eyes. Food Inc. takes a look at how all of our food came to be. It’s tough to watch and has you really thinking about what you’re putting into your body. The film uses lots of logic, powerful emotion, entertaining visuals, some borderline conspiracy and commentary from many credible sources. The film starts out with commentary “the way we eat has changed more 50 years than the previous 10,000” and talks about how the advertising for food still depicts classic farm raised food.
The book Fast Food Nations by Eric Schlosser is written to give the viewers an understanding on where their money is heading to when they purchase fast food. The Book is separated into 2 sections, “The American Way” and “Meat and Potatoes.” The book provides a sort of historical background of the fast food industries. It also shows the dark side of the industry. Such as unsafe and unsanitized slaughterhouses with zero respect to the employees. He provides factual evidence to back up this information.
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
Veggies Pete Singer, a well known advocate for vegetarianism, states that “A diet heavy in animal products, catered by intensive animal production, is a disaster for the animals, the environment, and the health of those who eat it.” This might make a person believe that the vegetarian diet is the best way to go. The problem is that most people won’t go to a nutritionist to find out what exactly they need to eat, and how much, to make sure that they are getting enough complete protein from a variety of foods. For example in Laura Fraser’s article she jokingly said that in early 80’s most of the vegetarian cook books called for three cups of cheddar cheese in every recipe except for granola. Well my husband’s cardiologist has a joke about cheese and that is the commercial that calls it “the power of cheese” should be required to say it is really the power of death. So we know that
The problems that may face Show Circuit are going to be overcoming objections to frozen dog foods, lack of appeal of frozen dog food and pricing. The will have to try and get it into all the major franchises, they are also going to have to change their marketing plans from show dogs and kennel owners to the average consumer. Even though Show Circuit has a successful history, they are still a new brand of food to the average consumer. The market is limited to the types of dog food that currently exist today. The market consists of three segments, Dry Dog Food that has a 65% share of the market, canned dog Food has a 15% share of the market and then dog treats contain a 20% of the market share.
Being monitored by three physicians; a general practitioner, a cardiologist, and a gastroenterologist, Spurlock kept track of how his health was being harmed each and every day to prove his point that McDonald’s, as well as every fast food restaurant, isn’t the best choice of nutritional food. The review is for the Los Angeles Times to consider publishing as one of its reviews of the film. The Problem: McDonald’s is a revenue making giant that sells fast food meals without much regard to the effects it will have on the health of society. One of the primary reasons people are obese today in the United States is because of fast food consumption. It is after all is the easiest and fastest way to get full when one is in a rush, especially with it being cheap and conveniently available almost at every corner of any major street in Los Angeles and every other city in the world today for that matter.
[…] What are the economic, social and environmental effects of eating animals?” (Foer, pg 12) Before even giving the book a chance I anticipated it would be just another pro-vegetarian polemic that would use each of its 300 pages to shame my eating habits. However, Foer with literary aplomb explains that Eating Animals is not that book. Instead of trying to convert the non-believers, he uses his personal relationships and stories surrounding food as a framework for his research into the agricultural farming industry. I believe he does so quite successfully. Foer begins by challenging the reader to an interesting thought experiment.
Why do we love one but eat the other? An ad campaign, “why love one but eat the other” has brought up some big disputes in the subways, buses and highways of Toronto. The campaign supports veganism and is supporting the cease of the abuse and mistreatment of animals in slaughterhouses. The campaign aims to bring up debate as to why we call some animal’s pets and others dinner (New MFA Anti-Meat Billboard Asks California Drivers). The ad draws attention to how similar the animals we call “family” are to the animals we call “dinner” and exposes the shocking truth about the cruelty that Canadian animals raised for food face (BeVeg.ca).The ads are seen by millions each day and make them speculate as to why we love our pets but eat other animals.
She claims that the Prius became a standard for environmentalism because of its low emissions, however the real issue is not vehicle emissions, but it is raising a preparing livestock for food.Freston continues by saying that a large issue is the gases produced, not only carbon dioxide but methane and nitrous oxide and that these gases come primarily from farmed animals. She ends by claiming becoming vegetarian has never been easier due to the immense amount of vegetarian friendly foods that have come about in recent years. The main appeal of the essay is the logical appeal. Freston uses hard evidence from sources such as reports published from the United Nations which concluded, “The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.” (800)This is effective because is shows the reader that the issue of environmental problems is even being noticed by the United Nations. Freston continues by stating “the U.N. report says almost a fifth of global warming emissions come from livestock - that’s more emissions than from all of the world’s transportation combined.” (800) This can be alarming for the reader and is effective