In the infamous prose “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” Robert Paarlberg, a Harvard international affairs expert divulges on the ongoing warfare with the issue of sustainability. Paarlberg focuses on how the rise in global starvation increases in less developed nations, but it is often ignored by those in developed countries because of their fixation with the green revolution. He asserts many claims as to why Africa and Asia still have high food deprivation rates, which quite contrary to popular belief has nothing to do with overpopulation. This stems from lack of investment into agricultural infrastructure and investments. His criticism of whole foods shoppers seeks to bring awareness to the issue of world hunger and how the quest to eat organically
Rhetorical Analysis of “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” In “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” by Robert Paarlberg, the main emphasis in the article is that there is a struggle to feed people, particularly in South Africa and Asia due to economic and population issues. His focus is on the lack of involvement of countries around the world that do have food. Throughout the article, Paarlberg talks about how organic agriculture is not going to feed the world and exposes myths about organic food and industrial scale food.
Summary Paul Ziobro’s article entitled as, “Target Revamps Groceries for Millennials” that was published on the 2nd of March 2015 present the plans that are being carried out by Target Corporation in a bid to attract millennial individuals who in this case involve people who were born in 80s and 90s (Ziobro, par.12) The article gives some of the steps that have been adopted and some which are yet to be implemented by Target Company in order to gain a competitive edge of other firms in the same industry. Ziobro mentions that, Target is focusing more on groceries and the addition of organic foods in its stock. This is mainly prompted by the projection that processed and packed foods are losing favor with their customers with time (Ziobro, par.
Grocery-cart wheels roll awry in 30318. Squeaking discordantly compared to the rest of Atlanta, this impoverished zip code conceals a dinnertime secret. Instead of vibrant broccoli displays with controlled rain showers, the area’s four grocery stores boast chartreuse candy wrappers and battered pork skins. Beneath hissing overhead lights, exhausted residents haul creaky carts between overstimulating aisles, their plump fingers precursors for later health problems like diabetes and heart disease. Unlike the prognosis, the diagnosis for 30318 is simple: the zip code embodies a food desert.
Transportation is one of the issues that is mentioned under the concern of the struggle that these families are facing. The journal suggests that people have to travel further to supermarkets or groceries stores to purchase items because supermarkets relocate to suburban neighborhoods in order to increase sale. Inner-city stores decrease and therefore people have to pay more for transportation and also higher cost for food and other items. In terms of transportation, one of the solutions is to offer those residents from economically distressed areas an easier way to travel to the nearest supermarket. The city can offer free shuttle services for those who exceed certain miles from a supermarket.
TRADER JOE’S – INDUVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1 Part 1 – Introduction What Joe Coulombe did was opening an ordinary supermarket into the industry but the strategies he took were separating the Trader Joe’s from its rivals. What he did was to offer products targeting sophisticated costumers who were searching for good bargains. The offerings of Trader Joe’s were so unique which are not found at rival shelfs. Another crucial decision he made was to take advantage of recent environmental movements such as the rising trend of costumers searching organic foods. The company also decided on selling private labelled products with lower prices than other brands of the same product.
In today’s world, food is one of the most discussed topics. Robert Paarlberg, in his essay, Attention Whole Food Shoppers, spells this out as an ‘elite preoccupation’ (Paarlberg, 141), especially in the West. He argues that there is a current trend where modern eco-foodies are pushing for a sustainable world and are not taking into account the more crucial problem: global deprivation and hunger. Robert Paarlberg is a B.F Johnson professor of political science at Wesley College and an associate at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
In the world, there are one billion people undernourished and one and a half billion more people overweight. In this day and age, where food has become a means of profit rather than a means of keeping people thriving and healthy, Raj Patel took it upon himself to explore why our world has become the home of these two opposite extremes: the stuffed and the starved. He does so by travelling the world and investigating the mess that was created by the big men (corporate food companies) when they took power away from the little men (farmers and farm workers) in order to provide for everyone else (the consumers) as conveniently and profitably as possible. In his book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Patel reveals his findings and tries to reach out to people not just as readers, but also as consumers, in hopes of regaining control over the one thing that has brought us all down: the world food system.
“You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don't want to feel” ~ Johnny Depp. This quote would have been great advice to our main character in the short story Checkouts by Cynthia Rylant. In the beginning of the story, the red headed girl with the orange bow hates how perfect her new house is. When at the checkout line at a grocery store she is intrigued by a boy that is imperfect and disheveled and immediately falls in love with him. She tries to shut the boy out of her heart, unsure of her feelings.
This new experience forced me out of my comfort zone and encouraged me to find out what these new foods were and how Latinos use them. Upon entry, the only shopper in the store was I. The more time I spent looking through the aisles, the more customers began to come in. Most of those shopping were Latino. There were several Latino men who looked like they were on their lunch hour picking up items for lunch; there were also a couple of families with children that came in to do grocery shopping.
The moment I came into this world, society understood my future held nothing, and I agree. Even though it appears people think that I have a future, to me, it is all just a facade. In my opinion, people are only nice to me because they pity the fact that I will probably end up as a hobo. Of course, I try to contribute to humanity by doing well in school and being a generous person. However, whatever I do is never enough.
Quoting Wal-Mart, Mr. Holt-Gimenez explains, “If you’ve always lived near a grocery store, or fresh market, here’s something you’ve probably never considered: There are neighborhoods across the United States where it is nearly impossible to find fresh produce. These places are called ‘Food Deserts’ and Walmart is committed to removing them from our communities” (525). Access to fresh, high-quality food is a major factor in today’s obesity problem and the reason why lower income individuals suffer from higher obesity. Lower income residents, often with no access to transportation other than the public system, are at the mercy of the food offerings that are within a few blocks from their home. With no grocery stores or fresh markets around, their choices are limited to fast, low-quality take out or pre-packaged foods void of any nutritious value.
“Twenty-two states now have some version of fresh-food financing and there are countless local and nonprofit programs...” They claim that stores are coming to these “claimed” “food desert.” Whereas, about two percent of that population did not have a car that they could use to go to the grocery store (US
External world such as people’s surroundings, parents’ expectation and market strategy pattern changes people’s thinking and behaviors. Malcolm Gladwell states that people’s behaviors may change under different situations and environments by arguing about how David Gunn oversees the subway system. After David Gunn make the subway to an orderly, clean and neat environment, crime in the subway decreased. Gladwell then concludes how character is unstable: “Character, then, isn’t what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn’t a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized.
They’d hurt. Despite the sights of the Bowery, the grime, and the rust, the oddest part is: Whole Foods. A Whole Foods, a giant corporation with overpriced commodities, is in a lower income neighborhood. Yuppies were walking out of the store with bags of groceries. Yet, the most interesting piece is how the homeless are taking shelter in the store.
