Michael Moss The Extraordinary Science Of Addictive Junk Food

Nowadays, the US is well known to people as the largest economic entity in the world. People gather here to seek opportunities, jobs and luck. However, this country also has a large gap between the rich and the poor. Social inequality is rising under capitalism and hegemony, which makes the upper classes wealthier but the middle and lower classes still struggling below. With the cross of technology and globalization, our market has become a free market, where large corporations establish a unique symbol in the economy. These corporations utilize their protection under the government and spread out to the public of their competencies. Michael Moss, the author of “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” illustrates the phenomenon that

They think collectively whereas Americans think individually. Additionally, Japanese will think as a whole while they face situations because they carry collective values. So that explains why the depression of Japanese culture cannot fit into the Western market. At the same time, in Moss’s essay, a bad example has been shown. Moss reveals By adding this extremely unhealthy product into the public, food companies use their strategies such as fancy advertisements to attract people and strip the rights of the people and make them lose the ability of self-judgment. In such circumstances, people’s individual values will be influenced by the public and the harm will reflect back to the public. Under the free market today, monopolies have created chaos between companies, where these companies usually have huge competition between each other. However, this competition mainly comes from the customers. Moss states that food companies have a choice to provide healthy and unhealthy foods, but most of them will produce junk food because the public likes it. In his words, In other words, Moss is trying to say that people cannot blame food companies for producing unhealthy junk foods because consumers have responsibilities of making companies do

Manipulating the culture in order to boost profit is not appropriate and will cause chaos to the community. Evidence can also be found in Watters’s essay. When the pharmaceutical companies looked to the Japan market, they aimed that the productions of SSRIs “reestablish the ‘balance’ of the ‘natural’ chemicals in the brain”. Watters use the word “broadly” to indicate his distrust of this product. In other words, he believes that this is just a “culturally shared story than a scientific fact”. The corporations keep the truth from people without letting the public know what this drug is truly for. They believe that once the public knows the truth, they will start turning into these products and the consequences will be negative. Both authors mentioned the connection between corporations and the public, on how these corporations keep focusing on boosting their profit and reputation or becoming a competition tool. If continuing doing so, chaos will happen eventually and there are no good results for both the corporations and the public. Regulation is needed to prevent companies from creating