Food, Inc. Part 3 183-218

There were many different strategies that I picked up on while reading this weeks assignment. In the section of, "What happened to food" on page 184. the author engages in this section by relaying his argument in a form of a question first. It makes the reader actually think about what the paragraph is later going to argue about. For example, we can look on page 185 in the beginning of the third paragraph. It states, "How can we be sure that food produced on local farms without centralized inspection and processing is really safe to eat?" After reading this I immediately started to think about why I believe that the food I buy from our grocery stores is safe to eat. I guess its just that unspoken trust we have with people that handle our food. We tend to think that if it is not safe to eat then it would not be for sale at the grocery store. This could be wrong in a bunch of aspects. As I engaged in this topic for a while I noticed how effective this strategy was.

The next effective strategy that I picked up on was on the section entitled, "Questions for a farmer", on page 197. This whole section consisted of the author suggesting questions we should be asking in order to know if the food we eat is actually safe for us to consume. The author took a different approach for this one. Instead of the usual essay form, the author engages in a different tactic to gather the readers attention to his main points. He actually highlights and lists the questions out and numbering them so the reader can automatically see and think about the question. After highlighting the question he then elaborates on it and go further into the details. He also enhances the structure of his section by seperating the list of questions into different categories which allows the reader to go specifically to the section they would have the most interest in.