Is Junk Food Really Cheaper Mark Bittman Analysis

In this article “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” Mark Bittman discusses how people think that fast food is cheaper than home cooked meals. Bittman purpose of this paper is to persuade people to stop buying fast food every so often and consider cooking home cooked meals. In this article, people who feel that fast food is cheaper and people who feel that they are “too busy” to prepare home cooked meals are the anticipated audience. During the entire article Bittman uses different types of rhetorical appeals and different types of arguments to address counter arguments which helped to support his central argument. Bittman explains multiple reasons as why people think that it is more expensive to cook food at home and would rather go eat out at a fast food restaurant. For example, according to the comments people have made, “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.” Bittman response to those comments by using the rhetorical appeals such as logos to support his argument when he explains the difference between McDonald’s prices and home cooked prices. “Typical order for a family of four – for example, two Big …show more content…
Such as people should buy home cooked meals but people that have low-income aren’t able to afford the prices that in the grocery store, so buying fast food are the most convenient and cheapest way for them to go. Although Bittman explains that nearly half of the low-income Americans are receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but he didn’t suggest anything for the ones who aren’t qualified to meet the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The real question here is, is junk food really cheaper than home cooked meals? Or both fast food and home cooked meals prices range up to be the same? Questions that Bittman hasn’t yet to