Rhetorical Speech On Food

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Food is a big part of everyone’s life. Food is fuel; it should be used as energy to get us through our day. Food is also comfort to many of us in the world today. Unfortunately food in our time has become extremely processed by big name corporations. Fast and convenient food is loaded with fat, sugar and other additives that are slowly killing us. Instead of teaching people how to cook whole meals, we are teaching them to grab the quickest meal to make. This usually means food that has no nutritional value and is horrible for our health. Jamie Oliver in his brilliant speech outlines all these problems and what needs to be done to fix them.
1. I believe that Oliver’s purpose was not only to inform us about the problem that faces us when it …show more content…

I believe he used Ethos, Pathos and Logos well. Ethos was used well throughout his whole speech, from the sources he used to the pictures he showed of families and what their diets consisted of. You can’t get more credible than that, everything he was arguing was right there in your face. He said bad food choices are slowly killing us and he gave examples. He said bad food choices are making us fat and he gave examples. Schools aren’t providing proper nutrition, he backed that up with facts and a visit to a school that proved not one kid in there knew what a vegetable was. Pathos was used well, showing a mother crying because she knew she wasn’t making the right food choices, due to the fact that she didn’t know any better. Him showing how her kids were suffering because of this by being bullied and going down the path of early health problems was a good way to prove his point. I know when I saw that it made me want to cry. Logos I think was used throughout. Logically you would think eat better live better, and he kept saying we need to teach parents and kids how to make better choices when it comes to food. I think that is the very root of what logic is. If something isn’t working like fatty foods, you cut the bad food out and eat healthier food. His arguments were effective. He used to people who lost loved ones to obesity, how much more effective can you get than that? Bad food choices make for bad health. The second effective argument he made was when he showed the

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