We Eat Is Killing Us Persuasive Speech Outline

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Topic: What We Eat is Killing Us
Organization Strategy: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Introduction:
I. Attention Getter: Imagine walking in the grocery store shopping for food. You pick up a pack of lunch meat and you look at the back of the ingredients list. As you continue to read, some of the ingredients are hard to pronounce or never heard of them before; Those are chemicals. Consumer items that lists the ingredients of strange chemical compounds are processed foods.
II. Central Claim: The processed foods that cause severe health problems and early deaths can be prevented by choosing to eat healthy and be smart shoppers.
III. Audience Orientation: Just eating those processed foods won’t instantly kill you, but constantly eating them over
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B. Illustrate Problem: Imagine a person who eats processed food, doesn’t exercise, eats no healthy food, and rapidly gains weight overtime leading to bad health.
1. The U.S. is one of the only countries that allows chemicals to be put in food.
2. The United Kingdom, Austria, and Singapore ban certain toxic chemicals known as Azodicarbonamide (Unsafe and Untested Chemicals in our food).
a) The FDA approved Azodicarbonamide to be used in food (Unsafe and Untested Chemicals in our Food).
C. Ramifications: The research by the U.S. Government shows about 700,000 deaths come from heart disease, strokes, and diabetes from the result of bad eating habits (The Bad Eating Habits are Killing most Americans).
1. A lot of food companies put salt in our foods, which increases blood pressure, putting stress on the arteries and heart (The Bad Eating Habits are Killing most Americans).
2. According to the Daily Beast, the FDA oversees about 80 percent of our food supply (Warner).
3. Just about 3,000 people per year in America die and 130,000 are hospitalized due to foodborne illnesses
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If the United States food industry continues to put chemicals in their products in the next 50 years, more Americans will die every day from heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer would increase rapidly.
C. Which scenario sounds more better for yourself, you friends, your family, and humanity?
a. Choose no way to chemicals in your food and yes way to healthy living leading longer live.
[Transition] The conclusion would lead to how we can make a change by making healthier choices.
Conclusion:
I. To close, the chemicals in food that cause people to develop deadly disease can be prevented.
II. Although, food industry puts scary and poisonous chemicals in our food, we can choose to limit on the intake of junk and processed foods.
III. If we go to the FDA and congress to take those chemicals out of our food, they won’t do it just because it is interfering with their profit, but it can change if we as consumers interfere with their profit.
A. It would be interesting if we boycott processed goods (Which would be a struggle), and maybe the food industries would find a way to take the toxins out so people would then stop boycotting.

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