I noticed that the topics that are mostly discussed regarding food is the health hazards, what we should or shouldn't eat and the way the animals are treated. Anything else regarding food usually doesn't normally hit the headlines. While I was reading the article I noticed that they didn't have one sided quotes. Of course they included the predictable doctor quotes, but they also included quotes of regular people on the street who disagreed with their article but also gave them more ammo to use against us. For example they quoted a Manhattan resident who said that eating vegetables is "a pain" A nurse who didn't want to be named even said that "vegetables make her gag" ["The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 29 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/health/policy/25vegetables.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=eta1>] It just shows that were lazy and even though we know were not doing the right thing we simply just don't care. They also pointed out that in the near future (they think) that organic cucumbers would replace conventionally grown one, and a bag of lettuce would replace a head. After I finished reading this article I felt as though some Americans either don't like vegetables, don't care or just know they should eat them but don't anyway. Regardless of what the article was trying to say I was left with a negative view on Americans which is common when discussing food, were kind of considered as the fat lazy kid that nobody really likes. I dont think this article was a "problem-result" article meaning they didnt point out the problem and then say how we should change it, I think they were just pointing out the issuse. Americans dont eat enough vegetables and here's why, this article was less one sided unlike the articles we usually read or hear about regarding food.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Dominant Discourse
Article Read: "Told to Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders French Fries"
I noticed that the topics that are mostly discussed regarding food is the health hazards, what we should or shouldn't eat and the way the animals are treated. Anything else regarding food usually doesn't normally hit the headlines. While I was reading the article I noticed that they didn't have one sided quotes. Of course they included the predictable doctor quotes, but they also included quotes of regular people on the street who disagreed with their article but also gave them more ammo to use against us. For example they quoted a Manhattan resident who said that eating vegetables is "a pain" A nurse who didn't want to be named even said that "vegetables make her gag" ["The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 29 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/health/policy/25vegetables.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=eta1>] It just shows that were lazy and even though we know were not doing the right thing we simply just don't care. They also pointed out that in the near future (they think) that organic cucumbers would replace conventionally grown one, and a bag of lettuce would replace a head. After I finished reading this article I felt as though some Americans either don't like vegetables, don't care or just know they should eat them but don't anyway. Regardless of what the article was trying to say I was left with a negative view on Americans which is common when discussing food, were kind of considered as the fat lazy kid that nobody really likes. I dont think this article was a "problem-result" article meaning they didnt point out the problem and then say how we should change it, I think they were just pointing out the issuse. Americans dont eat enough vegetables and here's why, this article was less one sided unlike the articles we usually read or hear about regarding food.
I noticed that the topics that are mostly discussed regarding food is the health hazards, what we should or shouldn't eat and the way the animals are treated. Anything else regarding food usually doesn't normally hit the headlines. While I was reading the article I noticed that they didn't have one sided quotes. Of course they included the predictable doctor quotes, but they also included quotes of regular people on the street who disagreed with their article but also gave them more ammo to use against us. For example they quoted a Manhattan resident who said that eating vegetables is "a pain" A nurse who didn't want to be named even said that "vegetables make her gag" ["The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 29 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/health/policy/25vegetables.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=eta1>] It just shows that were lazy and even though we know were not doing the right thing we simply just don't care. They also pointed out that in the near future (they think) that organic cucumbers would replace conventionally grown one, and a bag of lettuce would replace a head. After I finished reading this article I felt as though some Americans either don't like vegetables, don't care or just know they should eat them but don't anyway. Regardless of what the article was trying to say I was left with a negative view on Americans which is common when discussing food, were kind of considered as the fat lazy kid that nobody really likes. I dont think this article was a "problem-result" article meaning they didnt point out the problem and then say how we should change it, I think they were just pointing out the issuse. Americans dont eat enough vegetables and here's why, this article was less one sided unlike the articles we usually read or hear about regarding food.
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Ally,
ReplyDeleteYou've got some good detail (rise of organics, quote about gagging, bag versus head of lettuce). But I didn't see, and couldn't detect, a clear understanding of the idea of discourse. Please try to tackle the major idea in these posts.