hw #12

Outline

Thesis: Many of the dominant social practices in our society-practices that define a "normal" life- on further investigation turn out to involve nightmares and industrial atrocities.

Major Claim: The food industry doesn't want people to know what is in the foods they are consuming, where it comes from and how it reached their plates so they are deliberately keeping them in the dark while making them unhealthy.

Supporting claim: The labels on foods are misleading.
Evidence : Genetically Modified Foods
Evidence : Feedlots and slaughter houses, animals mistreatment.
Evidence : Industrial farming
Evidence : Chemicals in the food

Supporting claim: It's all about succeeding in the market place.
Evidence : Mass production of corn and animals
Evidence : Cheap foods
Evidence : Farmers being paid subsidies by the government

Supporting claim: We are what we eat
Evidence: fast food and cheap foods
Evidence: obesity and diabetes

Works cited:
Genetically modified foods:
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/gmfood/overview.php

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Food , inc

fast food and obesity:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/05/health/main591325.shtml
fast food and diabetes:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/healthscience/stories/043008dnnatfastfood.24f4a15.html