Healthy vs. Fastfood in Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? by Mark Bittman

In “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” by Mark Bittman, argues to change people thinking on fast food because Bittman claims that healthy food is essentially cheaper than fast food. To help support Bittman’s claim he uses many different rhetorical strategies in his editorial. Bittman begins his article by giving the person who reads a few statistics about the price of fast food as of today at high quality restaurants like McDonalds. The title of the editorial correspondingly states a disagreement which he illustrates the illustration of ordering from McDonalds, where he then demonstrates that cooking ourselves is inexpensive. Furthermore Bittman lectures that Americans have made cooking a chore.

Bittman defines the money part of it and how it is really low-cost to prepare home meals. Even individuals on food stamps can manage to pay for home cooked dinners. He gives the impression to concentrate on the low-priced aspect of the food but that is not the only reason why societies bargain fast food. A single parent for an example like my mother, who always work all day long, and by the time of night she found it is easier to pick up McDonalds or whatever she has a taste for. This is why fast food is eaten so much. Many parents commonly say that there is not a lot of time to cook a meal and also spend time with their children after a hard, exhausting day of labor. He does make a solid argument. A very large quantity of people eats more than enough fast food, so much as to where it becomes addictive. Relating fast food to a medication craving was a great way to visualize just how destructive fast food can be. Correspondingly, he positions that if the advertising of fast food restaurants were to decrease, as it did for smoking commercials, th...

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... Nestle’s quote, Bittman makes his editorial plea to ethos, by proposing proof that a woman of reliable mental power of this issue come to an agreement with Bittman's thesis statement. Bittman also develops pathos in this article because he grabs a widely held matter that to many individuals is elaborate with: "...giving them the gift of appreciating the pleasures of nourishing one another and enjoying that nourishment together.” (Mark Bittman) Bittman gives the reader the actions to think about the last time they had a family dinner and further imposes how these family dinners are altogether important for family time. Therefore, Bittman did a magnificent job in pointing into the morals of his targeted audience and developing a critical point of view about fast food to his intended audience leaving them with a thought on less fast food and more home prepared meals.