Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Abstract
While numbers of obesity are the highest they have ever been in the United States, there are many people looking for a change. One answer they are finding is eating organic or changing their lifestyle into a more sincere environmental outlook. With this growing trend of going “all natural” or organic, some might question the legitimacy of the economic costs that doing this will require. Due to the significant amount of benefits that ensue from a healthier diet, it is clear that the advantages will outweigh the economic drawbacks. This paper will demonstrate how the current inclination of eating healthy will remain widespread due to various medical, social and environmental causes.
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Nice start here! Read aloud again--you have a couple of misspellings/grammatical errors. I think that looking into the economics of this argument will be the best direction to take this; make sure that you make the economic argument in your response! If your naysayers are arguing that it is too expensive to change how we eat and grow food, then you will need to argue that organic eating does have economic benefits.
ReplyDeleteTry starting with Michael Pollan's book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma." This is an excellent piece of research journalism that sheds A LOT of light on your topic. You may also want to look into some of the writings of Wendell Berry (his essay "Two Economies" comes to mind as especially useful for the economic argument).