Salt Sugar Fat Dialetical Journal

TITLE OF TEXT: SALT SUGAR FAT AUTHOR: MICHAEL MOSS

STUDENT NAME: ELIZABETH WOOLLEN DATE: 8/20/15

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“As a culture, we’ve become upset by the tobacco companies advertisingto children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very samething. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public healthby a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.” | Xviii | We do not view food as a drug, or as a serious contributor to health problems when in fact it is. We view tobacco as “evil” and advertise against it while we stand idly by as obesity and diabetes rates climb. This is worrisome because the government knows these rates are climbing but have yet to step in as they did for tobacco. |

“Their lack of reticence raised a tantalizing question: If industryofficials were willing to go this far, this fast, in accepting responsibility,what else did they know that they were not saying publicly?” | Xxiv | This is astonishing and frightening to think that food companies could be hiding very pertinent information from the public. This makes me question the moral values of the food industry officials. This opened my eyes to how easy it is for the industry to withhold or skew information needed or received by the public. |

“There were 3,832 ads for mostlysugary cereals, 1,627 for candy and gum, 841 for cookies and crackers,582 for fruit drinks, and 184 for cakes, pies, and other desserts. The totalnumber of ads for unsweetened foods, like meat, or fish, or vegetablejuice, on the other hand? Four.” | 80 | I never really realized how many commercials there were for processed foods until after I read this and watched Saturday cartoons with my cousin. No wonder obesity rates are climbing in children. I do not believe parents realize the nutritional aspects of these foods. They view the commercials with their children and buy the foods in order to appease their children. |

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