In the excerpt from M.T. Anderson’s Feed, the author shows how deceiving stores can be. The way employees are, and how they attempt to make their products fit into each individual person’s life, can become deceitful. Consumerism is a movement to protect consumers against useless, inferior, or dangerous products, misleading advertising, and unfair pricing. UBIK and Feed give good examples of Consumerism, although the excerpt from Feed does an outstanding job of showing examples of consumerism while getting straight to the point. In UBIK, the author has ads for a product as the beginning of each chapter. But one thing that stands out about the ads is phrases such as “safe when used as directed”, and “use only as directed”. This is an excellent