HW # 12 - Final Food Project 2 - Outline

Final Food Project 2 Outline

Individuals living in our culture must recognize and respond to the nightmarish industrial atrocities at the root of dominant social practices in order to promote healthy practices that counter the injustices and damage the atrocities cause.


Major Claim: The only way to change the damage caused by industrial food companies to society and to nature is to have individuals take action against them by telling the truth about their life-threatening practices and trying to change individuals’ eating behavior.

Supporting Claim 1: The greed of the food industries is responsible for eating and food growing practices that have many negative outcomes for individuals and society.

Evidence: rising obesity rates especially for poor children and adults http://www.nytimes.com/info/obesity/

Evidence: rising diabetes rates especially for poor adults and now for poor young people http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/29/opinion/l-children-and-obesity-292362.html

Evidence: expansion of fast food restaurants used especially by poor people and young people
homepage.ntlworld.com/.../Bad%20News%20for%20Fast%20Food.doc

Evidence: continued increases in use of corn syrup even in organic foods
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/business/02syrup.html?pagewanted=all

Evidence: purchase of organic companies by non-organic companies
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/when-big-business-eats-organic/

Evidence: cruelty to animals used for meat and dangerous results for carnivores
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/slaughterhouses.html

Evidence: danger to land, especially pasture land
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-25-corn-ethanol-meat-hfcs

Evidence: danger to environment through huge fossil fuel consumption doc
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_case_against_biofuels_probing_ethanols_hidden_costs_/2251/

Supporting Claim 2: Actions by individuals to create awareness of food industry atrocities and dangerous eating practices are beginning to make a difference.

Evidence: rising number of green markets
www.mnn.com/food/.../number-of-farmers-markets-jumps-16-percent

Evidence: food labels on grocery products
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nutrition-facts/NU00293

Evidence: some restaurants listing number of calories in food products
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2010-01-28-kids-meals_N.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1301315/Restaurants-cafes-pubs-list-calories-item-menu.html

Evidence: anti-obesity programs (Michelle Obama’s program and others)
http://www.latimes.com/sns-health-michelle-obama-anti-obesity-initiative,0,876648.story
http://childrensnyp.org/Mschony/primary-care-community-programs.html

Evidence: sales of books by Michael Pollan,
http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/archives/998/a-hidden-history-of-the-world

Evidence: success of movies like Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/how-bad-is-mcdonalds-food_b_754814.html

Evidence: nutrition counseling by coaches and in schools?
http://www.eatright.org/Media/content.aspx?id=10201