Summary Of Michael Moss's Credibility

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Michael Moss's main point is explain his audience about how multinational food companies struggle to maintain their autonomy in the food chain and inform what kind of chemicals are actually put in to make these foods. Moss has credibility when he mentions the name of big companies like “ Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Nabisco and others, also he mentions a credible person James Behnke a 55-years-old executive at Pillsbury. However, everyone needs to know that each day the level of sick and obese people are increasing more and more. We need to be alert about those kind of foods so we won't be the next person to join this line of sick and obese people. Lucena 2 Nowadays a lot of people enjoys the taste of junk food because

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