In the 2000 article, “Goal Replace Risk Assessment With Alternative Assessment”, author Mary O’Brien poses many strengths in comparison to the article, “The Pleasure of eating”, by author Wendell Berry. Throughout “Goal Replace Risk Assessment with Alternative Assessment”, Mary O’Brien informs readers about the provincial approach of risk assessment and how, as a society, we should take a more open alternative method towards estimating damages. O’brien delineates the flaw when conducting risk assessment because assessors do not tend to not think about all the costs added up when it comes time to making decisions. In other words, we do not take all factors into consideration thus leading to poor decision making. However, O’Brien elaborates
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Furthermore, Berry suggests that even though we are not knowledgeable of how our food is produced, we have the ability to change our pleasure through free-will with exceptions to economic conditions. Berry puts forth several alternatives to change our lifestyle such as growing our own food, buying locally, and knowing how and where food is produced. As a result, Berry establishes an optimistic tone of the decisions we make on a daily basis, in order for the everyday individual to rethink about how they can change the way they eat for better health reasons and and overall experience.
With this, “Goal Replace Risk Assessment With Alternative Assessment” delivers a stronger message to the reader about how change can be possible due to addressing conflicts we as a society can approach and value, its use of pathos, and the importance of life and …show more content…
It states, “The incinerator managers can manually send 9,400 pounds of lead, 2560 pounds of mercury, and 157,400 pounds of fine particles out of the 150- foot incinerator.” The use of children and human health in general are used to describe the vulnerability that risk assessments do not often take into considerations. By mentioning that human health is in jeopardy, the audience tends to believe the author that we must use alternative assessments and becomes persuaded to set limitations on appropriate levels of various
Furthermore, Berry suggests that even though we are not knowledgeable of how our food is produced, we have the ability to change our pleasure through free-will with exceptions to economic conditions. Berry puts forth several alternatives to change our lifestyle such as growing our own food, buying locally, and knowing how and where food is produced. As a result, Berry establishes an optimistic tone of the decisions we make on a daily basis, in order for the everyday individual to rethink about how they can change the way they eat for better health reasons and and overall experience.
With this, “Goal Replace Risk Assessment With Alternative Assessment” delivers a stronger message to the reader about how change can be possible due to addressing conflicts we as a society can approach and value, its use of pathos, and the importance of life and …show more content…
It states, “The incinerator managers can manually send 9,400 pounds of lead, 2560 pounds of mercury, and 157,400 pounds of fine particles out of the 150- foot incinerator.” The use of children and human health in general are used to describe the vulnerability that risk assessments do not often take into considerations. By mentioning that human health is in jeopardy, the audience tends to believe the author that we must use alternative assessments and becomes persuaded to set limitations on appropriate levels of various