This will be a problem and solution essay. You will look at one way in which our food choices problematically affect either our minds and bodies, our environment, or our labor economy and then propose a solution for this problem. You will need to defend your solution by incorporating or challenging other points of view or solutions.
First you will need to focus on a specific diet/food choice and whether you will focus on its problematic effects on our bodies, environment, or labor. For example, if you decided to focus on Taco Bell, you could examine the effects of eating Taco Bell on your body, or you could examine the kind of labor Taco Bell relies on, or you could focus on how the food and packaging that Taco Bell sells affects our environment.
Second, you will use your research to do a few different things: 1) To establish the cause and effect relationship of the food choice to the problem that it creates and 2) to argue for a solution to this problem based on the relationship you’ve established between the choice and its effect, and 3) to demonstrate that you are aware of other potential cause and effect relationships and solutions. You must have a minimum of four sources. At least two of these must be outside sources from reputable or scholarly sources, and the other two should be from our readings in this unit. If you have any questions about what constitutes a reputable source, reach out to your instructor.
Third, you will propose a solution and describe it in enough detail that your reader can clearly understand the steps to the solution.
Fourth, you will also incorporate a “naysayer” based on the reading you’ve done in Chapter 6 of They Say/I Say and either successfully refute the objection or incorporate some of the objection but still convince your reader that your solution is a thoughtful and possible one.
