In documentay, Supersize Me, the filmmaker, Morgan Spurlock made this film to inform the audience about how dangers of eating fat food. Fast food is not only unhealthy to eat, but it could damage people’s healths. I think that Spurlock did a fantastic job to persuade the audience. He used three techniques of logos, pathos, and ethos to grab the audiences attention to his documentary. He did not just give the information about the dangers of eating too much fast food, however, his documentary is also entertaining the audiences as well. He knew that he could not stop people from eating fast food , but this film may help people to realize that fast food is a leading cause for American’s health problems. In the end of the film he stated the statement
The timeliness of this article is more likely to get people who support his opinion because people are more aware of what they are eating nowadays. Bittman stated himself that ever since “Morgan Spurlock almost ate himself to death, our relationship with fast food has changed” (3). His allusion to such a powerful film that influenced many people expresses his strength in using rhetorical
Supersize Me, The Truth Revealed In the film “Supersize Me” the strategies they use to convince the viewer that McDonalds is unhealthy are misleading and distort the truth. During the documentary Morgan Spurlock stages a lot of the content used. One example of this is when he throws up from the first time he eats a supersized meal. Throughout the entire documentary he gets supersized meals nine times but yet he only throws up the first time he eats a supersized meal.
Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me, shed a bright light not only on the fast growing obesity trend in America but to the companies that support them, as well. Spurlock, the film’s director and star, sacrificed his body and mind to bring attention to how too much fast food in one’s diet can be very harmful. The film was highly informative, with many interviews, and day-by-day scenes of Spurlock as he faces his McDonald’s challenge. The film supported anti-obesity using statistics with supporting information. The story of Morgan Spurlock as he faces his McDonald’s challenge and desperately tries to bring attention to this health epidemic, is highly captivating.
When dealing with fast food the question becomes, Where do we point the finger? The essay "Don’t Blame the Eater" written by David Zinczenko and "What You Eat Is Your Business" by Radely Balko, both explore the issue of fast food eating. The contradiction presents its-self when trying to figure out who is to blame for the health problems people face due to fast food. David Zinczenko sympathizes with kids and argue that by providing nutrition labels it will help the people make better choices, while Radely Balko stress the idea that people should take self responbilitie. Although each essay has very many strong points and were written very well "Don’t Blame the Eater" was written better than the essay "What You Eat is your Business" due to abundance of evidence and background.
Schlosser does not want to be another individual saying fast food is horrible only because of how unhealthy it is for the human body, his main message goes beyond that. Schlosser is an author who wants to give his readers the argument of how the fast food industry affected the landscape of America, created the gap between rich and poor wider, fueled obesity amongst many and even altered food production across America and the world. As well as getting the point across of how fast food is now what makes up America and is almost now part of the defination of America.
Zinczenko’s Rhetorical Precis In his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko sympathizes for port fast-food patron, like himself ages ago, he agrees that food industry should take some responsibility for obesity. He supports his claim by warning consumers about the dangers of fast food,as it play a factor in obesity. Within his argument, he questions other counter arguments and uses his narrative tone to show consumers that the food industry is necessarily at fault. Zincenko believes the prevalence of fast food and the lack of healthier food alternatives is causing obesity in America.
Junk food is responsible for the growing rate of obesity. This is outlined by David freedman in his article of “How junk food can end obesity.” David Freedman has credited the “health-food” motion, and followers of it along with Michel Pollan. Freedman claims that if the America desires to stop the obesity epidemic, or at least reduce its effects, they must shift to the fast meals and processed meals enterprise for assist, now not the “health-food” movement.
He proves how tired you can get (when he was struggling and out of breath while walking up the stairs) from all the eating of fast food. Not only did the weight gain affect his performance in life in general, but it also affected his relationship with his girlfriend who actually never wanted him to do the project in the first place. Spurlock doing the project himself was probably the best way possible to get his own factual support because he was able to use both his weight gain and decrease in his health overall. He kind of uses Pathos with this same idea as well, by making the entire documentary a personal story. Lots of statistics are given during the course of the documentary such as, “sixty percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese”, (“Super-Size Me,” 2007) which shows us just how serious this problem is and will continue to be if we don’t take action.
Food Inc. Food Inc., a documentary over the different food incorporations and facts that most of the consumers are not aware. Food Inc., discuses the main important themes that are caused by us the consumer’s food vs. healthy food, the reaction of the government, corn different uses, and how the consumers react. People choose fast food because it has two main things it is cheaper, and fast. The question is it fast food is good for us?
Super Size Me is a documentary about and directed by the filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. He wanted to make a documentary that was not just informative, but also entertaining. The aim of the film was to show the effects that fast food has on your body and your health. Spurlock wanted to prove that fast food played a big part in the increasing problem of obesity in America. He took part in an experiment on himself where he went on a strict diet consuming of nothing but fast food.
Super-Size Me is a documentary film, created by Morgan Spurlock. This documentary emphasizes the message of the risks of consuming fast food and the outcomes that fast food has on people’s health. Spurlock came up with this idea from a lawsuit that involved two young girls suing McDonalds for their weight problems. The presiding judge over this case ruled that there was not sufficient evidence that their health issues were caused by consuming food from McDonalds. As an experiment to see if these girl’s claim had any merit, Spurlock was determined to only consume food from McDonalds for thirty days and see if there was any correlation between eating fast food and declining of health.
`The main reason why the movie Supersize Me was made was to prove that McDonald’s food has a huge impact on body weight. After two overweight girls in the age of 14 and 19 sue McDonald’s for gaining most of the weight because of dining McDonald’s. The film maker wanted to check if it’s possible that eating fast food could have a negative impact on the health condition. In the time of the court process there was no proof that McDonald’s caused that issue and the girls didn’t win the process because of lack of proof & arguments. McDonald’s serves nearly 46 million meals per day, which is nearly the whole population of Spain.
“Don’t Blame the Eater”, written by David Zinczenko, is a short article discussing how fast food is the main cause of childhood obesity. This article came about in relations to two kids filing a lawsuit against McDonalds for making them fat. He begins his piece by sympathizing with these individuals because he used to be like them. Zinczenko then informs the reader of his background and how he fell into the category of being dependent upon quick and easy meals. In an attempt to provide a valid argument, he debates on how kids raise themselves while their parents are at work and that the nutritional values are not labeled upon prepared foods.
III.Conclusion A.Restatement of the thesis statement: Although fast food is convenient, affordable and have a good taste, we should avoid having fast food too often for our own health. B.Suggestion/recommendation: To totally avoid fast food is hard, but we should reduce our consumption of it, maybe twice a month. Other than fast food restaurant, maybe other restaurant should also start making delivery to cope with people’s lifestyle
“Fast food restaurants have us hooked on to their tasty food. You See a lot of people buying fast food because how good it tastes. Well let me tell you it is not good for your health. Why do fast food places lower their prices because they know people will buy it if it doesn’t cost that much and most people buy it cause that`s how much they can afford”. Fast food places is a way to not cook every week I feel bad for people when I go to McDonald’s and ask them, do you know what you’re eating in they say