Rhetorical Analysis Of What's Wrong With What We Eat By Mark Bitman

The rhetorical analysis that I am writing about is over the core reading “What’s Wrong with What We Eat”. This analysis is for my English 111 course. I will be writing to Professor Helfrich and my classmates. The medium that I am using is formal academic manuscript in APA format. The class was given a list of core readings to chose from and asked to write a rhetorical analysis over three main questions. Each person will have a different perspective over how they perceived rhetorical analysis over their specific reading. I hope that I am able to fully understand why Mark Bitman lectured about this topic and what his purpose was for. Bitman had many persuasive and believable points that I want to explore and the reasoning behind them. This topic

Mark gives a lecture using the platform Ted Talks to explain his many different points about how we eat to much meat and very few plants. He also, conveys how all of our bad habits from eating meat, to eating junk foods are putting our planet at risk. A lot of this lecture is spent trying to persuade the audience why people need to change because our time is becoming short with our bad habits. What, why, and how are the three main questions that are being posed when wanting to understand the reasoning for Mark Bitmans

This shows the impact on how important it is to make a priority in eating and making well balanced meals. Being able to see the history in how eating habits have changed generation to generation gives an insight on what we need to change. Many people such as Mark never ate a fresh vegetable until 19 years old. This shows that there is a big gap in eating balanced and healthy meals because of the mass production of frozen and canned foods. Mark Stated that, “it cut down on the variety of food we ate” (Mark Bittman 2007 Ted Talk, transcript 10:17). This lecture is trying to shape what people are going to eat and where they are going to get their food from. Mark clarified that, “we need to start acting”, (Mark Bitman 2007, transcript 8:35). on the overproduction and consumption of meat and junk food. It is proven that the more plants we eat the longer we will live. This information is backing up his idea and showing that it is logical making him more trustworthy.
The structure of the article is persuasive. Marks persuades by sharing his personal experiences and giving prominent facts to why Americans need to change. He starts out his lecture by enlightening and informing the importance of eating. After, he goes into how easy and readily available food is and how we do not think of the risks due to these unnatural foods. In his next segment he provides information