Dominant
Discourse is the dominating factor of a subject, such as ideas, information,
and points of view. This comes from the separate definitions, Dominant meaning
the most influential, or most powerful. Discourse meaning a particular
conversation in society that is maintained with rules and has certain
boundaries such as, what kind of vocabulary is used, who can speak, when
acceptable to speak, what can be spoken. The dominant discourse in the United
States regarding food ways seem to be food as a healer or food as poison
(Stated by Andy S.S teacher). This alone should signify the horrible state that
our eating habits have come to. Either food is soo bad it’s poisonous, or
people are so UN-HEALTHY and aren't educated on maintaining a healthy diet, so
there are calling healthy food a healer, versus it simply being normality.
The biggest problem in this discourse is getting Americans to eat healthy, and then have that nourishment be provided for them conveniently and affordably. Americans simply need to be educated on how they can prepare food in a healthy manner, and what food they need to consume and its proportions. The problem that is creating this problem is the FDA. FDA stands for Food and Drug Administration, they are subsets of the U.S department of human Rights and health, their slogan is "Protecting and promoting you health" (http://www.fda.gov/). If this is the case then they must be the most educated upon what is a healthy diet? They are in charge in making sure production of food is happening in a healthy manner, SO THEN WHY ARE THEY NOT DOING THEIR JOB? The FDA is witness to all the horrors of how food is made (not grown, or raised) in America so why do they let so much of it slide? Another huge issue that causes the dominant discourse view of food, as poison is the PROPAGANDA, everywhere, EVEN ON THE FOOD CHANNEL! Their is this one show called Unwrapped where the host brings the viewers through the process of mass-produced items and reveals how they are made, with things such as Butch's baked beans, tootsie rolls, tofu, pre-made ribs, barbecue sauce, canned corn, and so on. The show doesn't go into depth of all the ingredients or all the chemicals that are added to make these products but they do show you the procedure, the colossal amounts, and the dirty factories. Still the manage with a light-hearted atmosphere to make you feel comfortable with mass-production and make the viewer feel as if they know it well, and it is a good process. They also attempt to break the wall of not knowing the person who made your food so they give the company history and make it a family affair. Other propaganda are commercials on television for food are only for either diets (which who knows what kind of crap they send you in the mail), fast-food restaurant, chain supermarkets such as key-food, and other mass-produced items, NOT ONCE WILL YOU SEE A COMMERCIAL FOR ORGANIC FOOD OR FARMING! The biggest propaganda is probably the lazy factor they have instilled in Americans, Mc. Donald’s is an easy quick solution, bagged salad, CAN YOU BELIVE YOU ARE SAVING 3-MINUTES, no washing or pulling apart the head! You can also buy our salad dressing that will save you another 2-Minutes no needs to make your own! The biggest propaganda word in food is FRESH, beware of the word, they try to make you think it is fresh out the ground so it must be healthy but this is just to hide that it doesn’t have hormones and so on.
One of the biggest debates that seem to be is the price of food! A lot of Americans are now aware of the quality of mass-produced food because it is not hidden, but the simple fact is they do not have the means or resources to eat healthy! Another debate is whether it is worth the 'effort' of eating healthy. Stated in the New York Times Article Told to Eat Its Vegetables,America Orders Fries(Health section, SEPT. 24. 2010)"The nation has long had a complicated relationship with vegetables. People know that vegetables can improve health. But they’re a lot of work. In refrigerators all over the country, produce often dies a slow, limp death because life becomes too busy. “The moment you have something fresh you have to schedule your life around using it, before we want health, we want taste, we want convenience and we want low cost” This is the insight of a typical American and it is truly saddening.
Unfortunately we live in a society where a reasonably educated (by propaganda) person eats a horrible diet with horrible practices to follow. A typical American diet consist of practically no vegetables, and a whole lot of meat, meat, meat, grease, and excessive amounts of sweets including un-necessary things such as soda. Americans either make this crap themselves or buy pre-made food. They then eat this food in front of a television and this is their foodway. Most Americans eat 3-meals a day and snack tremendously throughout all three, eating junk such as Doritos, Twinkies, Tyson chicken nuggets, ranch sauces, beef jerky, candy, cookies, and so on. Things such as mass-produced juice, instead of simply having the juice of an apple, added to is chemicals to preserve, concentrate of other fruit, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, all these ingredients that are UN-NECESSARY. Americans now have a palate use to this crap, so pure and natural does not taste good!
The biggest problem in this discourse is getting Americans to eat healthy, and then have that nourishment be provided for them conveniently and affordably. Americans simply need to be educated on how they can prepare food in a healthy manner, and what food they need to consume and its proportions. The problem that is creating this problem is the FDA. FDA stands for Food and Drug Administration, they are subsets of the U.S department of human Rights and health, their slogan is "Protecting and promoting you health" (http://www.fda.gov/). If this is the case then they must be the most educated upon what is a healthy diet? They are in charge in making sure production of food is happening in a healthy manner, SO THEN WHY ARE THEY NOT DOING THEIR JOB? The FDA is witness to all the horrors of how food is made (not grown, or raised) in America so why do they let so much of it slide? Another huge issue that causes the dominant discourse view of food, as poison is the PROPAGANDA, everywhere, EVEN ON THE FOOD CHANNEL! Their is this one show called Unwrapped where the host brings the viewers through the process of mass-produced items and reveals how they are made, with things such as Butch's baked beans, tootsie rolls, tofu, pre-made ribs, barbecue sauce, canned corn, and so on. The show doesn't go into depth of all the ingredients or all the chemicals that are added to make these products but they do show you the procedure, the colossal amounts, and the dirty factories. Still the manage with a light-hearted atmosphere to make you feel comfortable with mass-production and make the viewer feel as if they know it well, and it is a good process. They also attempt to break the wall of not knowing the person who made your food so they give the company history and make it a family affair. Other propaganda are commercials on television for food are only for either diets (which who knows what kind of crap they send you in the mail), fast-food restaurant, chain supermarkets such as key-food, and other mass-produced items, NOT ONCE WILL YOU SEE A COMMERCIAL FOR ORGANIC FOOD OR FARMING! The biggest propaganda is probably the lazy factor they have instilled in Americans, Mc. Donald’s is an easy quick solution, bagged salad, CAN YOU BELIVE YOU ARE SAVING 3-MINUTES, no washing or pulling apart the head! You can also buy our salad dressing that will save you another 2-Minutes no needs to make your own! The biggest propaganda word in food is FRESH, beware of the word, they try to make you think it is fresh out the ground so it must be healthy but this is just to hide that it doesn’t have hormones and so on.
Is it Hitler or Ronald
Mc Donald ?
One of the biggest debates that seem to be is the price of food! A lot of Americans are now aware of the quality of mass-produced food because it is not hidden, but the simple fact is they do not have the means or resources to eat healthy! Another debate is whether it is worth the 'effort' of eating healthy. Stated in the New York Times Article Told to Eat Its Vegetables,America Orders Fries(Health section, SEPT. 24. 2010)"The nation has long had a complicated relationship with vegetables. People know that vegetables can improve health. But they’re a lot of work. In refrigerators all over the country, produce often dies a slow, limp death because life becomes too busy. “The moment you have something fresh you have to schedule your life around using it, before we want health, we want taste, we want convenience and we want low cost” This is the insight of a typical American and it is truly saddening.
Unfortunately we live in a society where a reasonably educated (by propaganda) person eats a horrible diet with horrible practices to follow. A typical American diet consist of practically no vegetables, and a whole lot of meat, meat, meat, grease, and excessive amounts of sweets including un-necessary things such as soda. Americans either make this crap themselves or buy pre-made food. They then eat this food in front of a television and this is their foodway. Most Americans eat 3-meals a day and snack tremendously throughout all three, eating junk such as Doritos, Twinkies, Tyson chicken nuggets, ranch sauces, beef jerky, candy, cookies, and so on. Things such as mass-produced juice, instead of simply having the juice of an apple, added to is chemicals to preserve, concentrate of other fruit, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, all these ingredients that are UN-NECESSARY. Americans now have a palate use to this crap, so pure and natural does not taste good!
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