According to statistics, more than one billion people in the world are undernourished today. In his article “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers”, Robert Paarlberg discusses recent food policy of Western countries, according to which food products should be organic and local. In result, poor African countries experience hunger and worsening of the agriculture infrastructure because most Western countries lost their interest to invest the agricultural systems of developing countries. While in the West food becomes more and more exquisite, poor countries become deprived of the most basic food products, such as rice, wheat, and others. Paarlberg emphasizes that helping developing countries is no more a trend today and the world market is justified
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In the introduction, the author appeals to sympathy using strong and emotionally
charged phrases. Saying that “the most effective ways to address hunger in poor countries have fallen out of fashion,” the author makes his readers feel anger toward the Western countries and their indifference to the issues of hunger and poverty in developing countries and in the same time share empathy toward undernourished people of Africa and other starving regions in the world. Throughout the article, the author evokes negative and criticizing emotions
toward all the Western world. In the phrase “What’s so tragic about this is that we know from experience how to fix the problem,” (Paarlberg) he emphasizes that we know how to fix the problem but we are two selfish to do something for …show more content…
The only probable weakness of the article is a small amount of pathos. In terms of emotional contact with readers, the article is rather weak, because dry facts and terms significantly prevail the emotional appeal to the reader and the author's estimates. However, on the other hand, from a scientific viewpoint, the article is invaluable because every thought and argument are backed up by a variety of relevant sources.
To sum up, the article “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” by Robert Paarlberg analyses the issue of hunger and poverty in developing countries and how it depends on the
Western campaign called “buy local”. He skillfully uses pathos at the beginning of the article, but in general, it is quite weak because of its specific type. The ethos is used very widely and persuasively. There is a huge number of reference and quotes from competent sources and persons what makes the article completely credible. Logos is also used by the author properly as all his arguments and thoughts have clear reasons, conclusion, and logical connection. It would be correct to say, that the rhetorical strategies used in the article are more than
In the introduction, the author appeals to sympathy using strong and emotionally
charged phrases. Saying that “the most effective ways to address hunger in poor countries have fallen out of fashion,” the author makes his readers feel anger toward the Western countries and their indifference to the issues of hunger and poverty in developing countries and in the same time share empathy toward undernourished people of Africa and other starving regions in the world. Throughout the article, the author evokes negative and criticizing emotions
toward all the Western world. In the phrase “What’s so tragic about this is that we know from experience how to fix the problem,” (Paarlberg) he emphasizes that we know how to fix the problem but we are two selfish to do something for …show more content…
The only probable weakness of the article is a small amount of pathos. In terms of emotional contact with readers, the article is rather weak, because dry facts and terms significantly prevail the emotional appeal to the reader and the author's estimates. However, on the other hand, from a scientific viewpoint, the article is invaluable because every thought and argument are backed up by a variety of relevant sources.
To sum up, the article “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” by Robert Paarlberg analyses the issue of hunger and poverty in developing countries and how it depends on the
Western campaign called “buy local”. He skillfully uses pathos at the beginning of the article, but in general, it is quite weak because of its specific type. The ethos is used very widely and persuasively. There is a huge number of reference and quotes from competent sources and persons what makes the article completely credible. Logos is also used by the author properly as all his arguments and thoughts have clear reasons, conclusion, and logical connection. It would be correct to say, that the rhetorical strategies used in the article are more than