Eric Schlosser - Fat Food Nation Eric Schlosser begins "Global Realization" with a visit to Plauen, which he writes, "has been alternately punished, rewarded, devastated, and transformed by the great unifying system of the twentieth century... Plauen has been a battlefield for these competing ideologies, with their proudly displayed and archetypal symbols: the smokestack, the swastika, the hammer and sickle, the golden arches. " What are the "competeing ideologies" to which Schlosser refers? What do the "archetypal symbols" he mentions represent? Each person learns to develop their own distinct set of beliefs based on the fact that they have their own subjective reality.
" The primary thing shown, is that fatness is a bad, temporary thing that leaves people forever traumatized. Negative characteristics of the character sends the very untrue message that all fat people are or should be ashamed to be that way, and do their best to shrink down their bodies as fast as
Zinczenko’s Rhetorical Precis In his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko sympathizes for port fast-food patron, like himself ages ago, he agrees that food industry should take some responsibility for obesity. He supports his claim by warning consumers about the dangers of fast food,as it play a factor in obesity. Within his argument, he questions other counter arguments and uses his narrative tone to show consumers that the food industry is necessarily at fault. Zincenko believes the prevalence of fast food and the lack of healthier food alternatives is causing obesity in America.
Ashiqullah Pardisi Instructor Porter ENG 111.124B 8 April 2015 Rhetorical Analysis: Don’t Blame the Eater David Zinczenko’s “Don’t Blame the Eater” and Dr.Mercola’s advertisement “Childhood Obesity is Everyone's Problem” (see fig.1) both argue that obesity is a very big problem which threatens everyone especially children. Fast food and junk food are the main causes of obesity. In David Zinczenko’s essay he talks about how easy it is for teenagers to get obese by eating fast food every day, and he talks about how he became obese when he was young. Dr. Mercola “Childhood Obesity is Everyone's Problem” argues through a picture and title to tell people that obesity is epidemic, and it is not only one person’s problem. FIG 1 Childhood Obesity
In both David Zinczenko’s “Don’t Blame The Eater” and “ Radley Balko’s “What You Eat is Your Business”, the argument of obesity in America is present and clear from opposing viewpoints. Both articles were written in the early 2000’s, when the popular political topic of the time was obesity and how it would be dealt by our nation in the future. While Zinczenko argues that unhealthy junk food is an unavoidable cultural factor, Balko presents the thought that the government should have no say in it’s citizens diet or eating habits. Zinczenko’s article was written with the rhetorical stratedgy of pathos in mind.
In the short article “Don’t Blame the Eater” written by David Zinczenko, former editor in chief of Men 's health magazine. Zinczenko from the begin of his article had established sense of emotional appeal toward overweight individual; in particular children. This evident when Zinczenko quoted Jay Leno (popular tv host) making a joke comparing irresponsible driver to common youth fast food patrons. Zinczenko defense them by stating “I tend to sympathize with these portly fast-food patrons.[m]aybe that’s because [he] us to be one of them”(Zinczenko 241).
Acknowledging that this new epidemic does not discriminate against anybody, is an appeal to pathos, stimulating the feeling of fear. Table 1 on page 354, is entirely about the percentages of population that are considered overweight/obese by race and gender, supporting the idea that obesity does not only effect people of a certain race or age. The authors do not rely on an appeal to pathos, but it is present throughout the writing. Multiple times Morrill and Chinn remind the audience of the alarming rate that the percentages of people included in the category of overweight are increasing. By stating that about nine million children in the United States are currently overweight, along with the statistic “If the current trend continues, approximately one-third of all children…born in 2000 will develop diabetes”(Morrill, 356), the authors’ use of the emotional appeal of children being affected by this epidemic boosts the sense of pathos.
In short, many people around the United States suffer from food instability and hunger. People can’t always help the situations they are in, but there are things almost everyone can do to help the hunger situation in
Obesity is defined as excessive body adiposity that is fat, to the extent to which it impacts on one’s wellbeing. Australia is one of the most overweight developed nations, with other 60 % of adults and one in four children overweight. This part of the paper highlights the ideas of privilege and disadvantage can affect obesity rates within a society. Economic growth, while acknowledged to contribute to the alleviation of malnutrition, also results in diets that are composed of a greater proportion of fats, rather than proteins or carbohydrates, worsening rates of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Rising income levels have led to an increase in expenditure on food, although smaller proportionally than the income increase.
Though they are just the same, ordinary people as the other people live in other place on Earth. Moreover, in Africa, there are many countries which are in the condition of extremely chaotic and destitute. They do not have food, even the water that needed could not be
Obesity Proposal Obesity is a major problem in the United States. With the rates on obesity constantly rising we have to come up with a way to solve the problem somehow. Fortunately, there are some way that we can help and that includes helping the youth understand obesity, encouraging restaurants to improve their menus and nutrition facts and opening space for citizens so they can become fit and active. One of the main issues as to why America is obese is because of all the opportunities they have available to them.
Intense starvation and poverty is a worldwide problem and not just an individual problem because it economically affects others as well as themselves, it also sheds some light on what is in fact going on in the world rather than what is hidden from society, and lastly diseases are more susceptible to spread worldwide if this continues.
Imagine being so hungry you can’t even move. Having to sleep in a house made of dirt, or being so thirsty because there is no safe drinking water. People around the World face these problems everyday. 328,000,000 children live in extreme poverty, and 1 in 10 people live on less than $1.90 a day. The conditions they live in are horrible and everyone should do what they can to help end poverty and world hunger.
According to the WTN Global Challenges Program Hunger Initiative, 578 million people in Asia and the Pacific , 239 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 37 million in the Near East and North Africa, and 19 million in developed countries are affected by hunger. That equates to about one in every ten people being affected by hunger. According to Dr. Lindsey Shirley, the author of “A Practical Problem Approach to World Hunger: Universities Fighting World Hunger,” since the second half of the 1900s, there has been an increase of about 4 million people per year who do not have enough to eat. These numbers should not be increasing every year, and there should be a solution to stop it (Shirley
Africa is beautiful but with all of the garbage and other things getting burned, Africa looks horrible. Asia is the continent with the most hungry people -- two thirds of the world’s total. Southern Asia faces the greatest hunger burden, with about 281 million undernourished people.2 I always thought that Africa was the most undernourished country, but now I know it’s Asia. Smaller countries are more likely to be undernourished, but that doesn’t mean they always are this is because of the few jobs. Since 1990, the world has reduced the number of people who live in extreme poverty by over half.
