Math Lessons For Locavores Analysis

In the new information age, many people are informed the important of food and heathy life style. Knowing this, many food producers hit their consumers with many bright image of the healthy local grown food. They try to create a mental association of local and healthy food, while in reality they are two different concepts. By definition the local grown food is the food grow and process in the proximity of 50 miles, which has nothing to do with its healthiness. The advertisers create this belief to make consumers buy more of the local food, but the consumers are still getting the same products. The only thing the consumers do right is living up to their false assumption. Due to the shallow knowledge of the general public, the local food movement …show more content…
Budiansky believes that locavore does not fully understand the sustainability of the industrial food chain, thus they do not make a wise decision. In his article Math lessons for locavores, he tried to inform the uninformed about the truth nature of the food innovation and explain the ambiguous terms of “sustainability and food miles” by pointing that food transported is just as sustainable as local food. His fact and opinion are mix together, it hard to tell where his data is and where is his opinion. Although his opinion are not back up firmly, he utilizes the logos and ethos very efficiently. His tone and language are very welcoming and easy to grasp. His data and opinion are stepping stone for ethos as he express himself as a well research individual. The evidences although abundance are not convincing. The present of evidences pose many hole in his argument. For instance his data are every energy consumption, so even if food is brought local or national the amount of energy spent is still the same. Thus, His argument also point to one weakness of the opposition and only focus on it. Most of the other aspects of the opposition and data are ignored. Overall his article are not convincing for the well inform individual or expert in rhetorical, but for the neutral uninform citizen this may be very convincing. This article will be used as a weak point for the main research paper as a transitional point to discuss the opposing …show more content…
Bundiansky’s argument very aggressively with a hash and cynical tone with the aim to falsify this particular are and nothing more. In her article the myth of the Rabid Locavore, Her goal is gazing into every mistakes and holes in Mr. Bundiansky’s argument and destroy his credibility, because she believe he is a fraud. She assumes that Mr. Bundiansky’s article is valueless. It may or may not be true, but her firm hits into her opponent’ reputation and credibility weaken her argument. Her paper is a pure opinion oriented paper with very little research and data to back it up. Her main goal is not to prove the positivity of local food consumption but to destroy her opponent credibility. Emotion appeal is used many times on this paper, and it is used in the worst way possible: to humiliate and disgrace someone. However, she does consider the opposition point of view and organization very thoroughly, because it is his weakness that she attacks into. This article does help fluctuate the opinion of people from Bundainsky’s article due to its deep analysis, but it does not convincing. So overall she cannot gain any success from convincing audience into her side. This paper will be the perfect example of the weakness of the opposition of the argument, and it will reveal the inferior or the opposition and highlight the bright of the central