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    Print  Michelle‚ Obama. “Remarks to the NAACP National Convention” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff‚Cathy Birkenstien‚ Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York‚ London: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2012. Print  Michael‚ Pollan. “Escape from the Western Diet” “They Say I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing Ed. Gerald Graff‚Cathy Birkenstien‚ Russel Durst. 2nd ed. New York‚ London: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2012. Print  Judith‚ Warner. “Junking Junk Food” “They

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    Animals(ASPCA) or The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA) can make a big difference. You can support them either monetarily or by volunteering your time in your local area. In Chapter 17 of the Omnivore’s Dilemma (The Ethics of Eating Animals)‚ Pollan (2006)‚ says that “Eating meat has become morally problematic‚ at least for people who take the trouble to think about it. Vegetarianism is more popular than it has ever been‚ and animal rights is rapidly finding its way into the cultural mainstream”(p

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    Is It Really Worth It? You’ve most likely gone grocery shopping right? You’ve seen all the choices you can choose from‚ correct? Well‚ it’s really not that big of a choice. Most of your food comes from the industrial food system‚ the system that grows more corn than any other crop. This is because corn is cheap to grow‚ and companies can transform it into all sorts of foods. This structure can feed millions of people‚ but it values quantity over quality. Now‚ you’re probably thinking‚ Why should

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    edu/form?qurl=http://www.credoreference.com/entry/cupfood/food_and_industry Kenner‚ R.‚ Pearlstein‚ E Pervasive high-fructose corn syrup linked to weight gain and type 2 diabetes. (2004). Environmental Nutrition‚ 27(7)‚ 3. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Pollan‚ Michael. (2006). The omnivore ’s dilemma : A natural history of four meals. New York: Penguin Press. Schneider‚ S. (2009). Reconnecting consumers and producers: on the path toward a sustainable food and agriculture policy. 14 Drake J. Agric. L. 75

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    Cited: Pollan‚ Michael. "When a Crop Becomes King." The New Yorks times‚ 19 July 2002. Berry‚ Wendell. "The Pleasure of Eating."

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    In the reading “What You Eat Is Your Business” Radley Balko states “For decades now‚ America’s Healthcare system has been migrating toward socialism. Your well-being‚ shape‚ and condition have increasingly been deemed matters of “public health‚” instead of matters of personal responsibility.” (467) which shows this writer’s view that it is a problem of discipline and a person’s own personal choice to be unhealthy. “That means freeing insurance companies to reward healthy lifestyles‚ and penalize

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    Healthy Food Equals Healthy Happy Students   Healthy Food Equals Healthy Happy Students What is your take about schools serving the students high calories‚ high fat‚ and low nutrition meal? When we drop off our children at school‚ we are under the impression that they are in good hands and receiving a good education. Nevertheless‚ are the schools negatively affecting the development of the students with unhealthy processed meals? Prepackaged‚ frozen meals‚ high in calories‚ and low

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    In the essay‚ “How a National Food Policy Could Save Millions of Lives‚” the authors’ main idea is to try to persuade their audience that a food policy would be beneficial in numerous ways. The authors Mark Bittman‚ Michael Pollan‚ Ricardo Salvador‚ and Olivier De Schutter believe that how we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on American’s well-being than any other human activity. They want all Americans to have access to healthful food‚ and the food supply to be free of toxic bacteria

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    Fontboone University who claims that the food industries‚ as well as prominent health journalists‚ are part of the growing health anxiety in our country. Her essay is a response to Michael Pollan‚ a well-known health journalist and is a name that Maxfield refers to a lot in her article. She suggests that Pollan is contributing to our cultural anxiety over food by using “eating algorithms” in which he backs up by his negative claims over American health. Instead of using a diet plan‚ or strict rules

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    Answer to Africa ’s Hunger Crisis? : 6. Negative Impacts: The Economy. University Of Michigan‚ n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2015. Mercola‚ Joseph. "The Dirty Little Secret Hidden in Some Health Foods - Soy Products." mercola.com 2011. Web. 20 Feb. 2015. Michael Pollan. “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (2006).” American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau. Ed. Bill McKibben. New York‚ NY: Literary Classics of the United States‚ 2008. 948. Print.

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