What Food Say About Class In America By Lisa Miller Analysis

Food has become part of our social status. Those who have money get to enjoy healthy organic options, while those who live on food stamps and low incomes get sugary packaged foods that are harmful to the body. In “What Food says about Class in America,” Lisa Miller effectively captures the American people’s attention through descriptive imagery, alluring metaphors, and repetitive facts but fails to convince her target audience of the food corporations that a change is needed. Even though her argument is persuasive to some, it fails to fulfil its intended purpose of bringing change by convincing those who control the market to make the change.
Opening her article, Miller describes her family’s breakfast habits to relate herself to the people.
Just because we make good quality fruits and vegetables cheaply available does not mean people will eat them. With this uncertainty making changes would be a high risk, low reward situation which is not a good setup. By including this quote in her argument, Miller undermines her argument and proves that this solution may be
Her argument strives to make changes at the corporate level by selling high quality food for lower prices but the rhetorical strategies do not have the correct effect. Miller starts her argument off and portrays herself as a regular person, thus losing her power to convince the audience to listen to her ideas. In addition, what maybe a sob story to most people is exactly how food corporations make money which does not help her argument. Next, because she failed to create credibility with her audience, her facts and statistics are not effective. Finally, food corporations are not willing to partake in risky business proposals that either way will negatively impact the company. Miller’s argument fails to be compelling and does not convince food corporations of the necessity for change, thus being