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Nowdays, junk food doesn’t need to introduce itself. Everyone enjoys how junk food taste because is the most popular fast food, tasty, and most important, affordable. Consuming fast food is tasty and you might think is healthy just because it said on the labels “healthy” but for your information, There is no healthy involved in junk food whatsoever. Junk food is all good tasting, except the fact that it is not nutritionally balanced. Michael Moss’s article The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food he talks about the extraordinary science behind what we consider tasty food and fast food for addiction, and how big food companies struggle to maintain healthy food with any preservatives that will affect our society’s health, especially in …show more content…

According to the New York Times Bestseller authors, Michael’s writing “focuses on the food industry in context of health, safety, nutrition, politics, marketing, corporate interests, and, finally, the power of individuals to gain control of what and how they eat.” Michael also is professor at Columbia School Journalism and a reporter, also he has many other literature awards during his career.
Moss’s plan in the article was to inform the readers about the fast food industry’s role in America’s health caos and what our food really contains and how we as customers know the negative outcome in consuming it but we still do it. Some of the rhetorical gadget he appoint in his article are: appealing to the pathos, logos, and ethos of his readers. Michael begins by describing a private meeting which involved the America’s largest fast food companies to come to a settlement to end or at least to decrease the percentages of overweight in …show more content…

It is disturbing that so many industry members allow their quest for money and success to override their moral code and concern for their society. Even after attending a seminar that explained the dangerous and staggering rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc., there still remained people who openly admitted that their careers in the food industry do not “allow for them to be moral” and that, in fact, many of them do not even have a problem with that, they still process junk food without having any

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