Migration On Ice: How Globalization Kills For Their Parts

Chicken is one of the most widely eaten foods around the globe, having the ability to unite many cultures together on an individual level. In Malia Wollan’s article “Migration, on Ice: How Globalization Kills Chickens for Their Parts” she informs the readers about the issue of globalization in the chicken industry and how it has begun to affect countries around the world. Companies from around the globe are exporting poultry into other countries—usually lower priced than the local market—and capitalizing on the wealth of other nations. Wollan explains that companies like Tyson are capitalizing on the chicken preferences of other countries, parting out the desired chicken pieces and sending them overseas, affecting local poultry industries. Specifically, Wollan talks about the African nation of Ghana, whose local chicken industry has been ravaged by cheaper chicken shipped from across the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, companies have launched advertising campaigns targeted at women and mothers,

providing little chances for local businesses to compete. In article “Migration, on Ice: How Globalization Kills Chickens for Their Parts”, Wollan introduces the Ghanaian poultry dilemma as an example of globalization in hopes of sparking interest in readers of the complexities it generates.
Wollan starts off her essay by intriguing readers through the usage of vivid verbs and providing the opinion of an expert in the Ghanaian poultry industry.

Through the usage of this expert witness, Wollan establishes a network of trust based on factual evidence that the readers find ensuring. Along with the expert, Wollan provides factual evidence based on research to provide credibility to her article. With these established sources, Wollan is able to use a more intellectual word choice to appeal to people of higher education. Her word choice at times is bland but makes up for it in intellectual superiority. Her usage of the word “myoglobin” to describe the origin of chickens’ meat color and “exorbitant” to describe feed costs suggests that her target audience possesses somewhat of a higher education. Wollan’s word are somewhat effective in that they portray the globalization issue in a professional manner, but fail to offer her stance on this controversial

issue.
In addition to using an intellectual word choice, Wollan provides enough substance in her article to accurately display the globalization of the poultry issue in Ghana. In her article, Wollan provides tons of factual information that back up her claims. With her efforts to explain this issue, Wollan discloses that only certain part of chickens are sent around the world based on their preference. Going into more depth, the article even explains how the color of a chicken’s meat “depends on the type of movement the muscle makes during the bird’s lifetime (Wollan). This provides readers with background information that they may currently not have and helps cover all aspects of the globalization issue. Wollan also covers the opposite side of the argument by explaining the issues facing globalization. Her statement “…it took just a single event to reveal the fragility of the free market chicken trade” proves that she spent time researching not only what globalization is doing to the Ghanaian economy, but how globalization can be affected by certain factors (Wollan). Although at times the organization of her article seems to lack a sense of flow, the substance of the article is extremely rich and thoroughly investigates how the globalization of the chicken trade undermines the Ghanaian economy.
Overall, the article “Migration, on Ice: How Globalization Kills Chickens for Their Parts” is a fundamentally sound essay that analyzes the poultry dispute in an intellectual manner.