Explain What Instigated The Initial Backlash Against Bottled Water
Gurjot Sandhu
ENGWR 300 TTH 10:30 am
Professor Munoz
10/28/14
Journal 7 Bottlemania Chapter 7
Study Questions
1. The title is backlash because people maybe are not buying bottled water anymore. Backlash could be or look like, where people don’t buy a certain object or thing, because of the reputation or history of it. Backlash is from something that people don’t like, whether it’s too expensive, bad reputation, negative purpose of the object or thing, etc.
2. What instigated the initial backlash against bottled water was that it was being way too costly and tax payers wanted to stop contributing to bottled water. Whereas the other issues were that money should be contributed to somewhere more important such as oil.
3. People and organizations attempt to dissuade people from consuming bottled water by saying that the bottled water industry has spent millions to make you sure don’t know what’s actually in the bottled water. That just because the bottled water companies has nice images on their bottles and seems like they make it look healthy and safe when it really isn’t. …show more content…
Fluoride is good to use but not in excess, too much of it can be bad. It’s added to municipal water sources, because it’s to help with peoples teeth. Bottled water didn’t contain fluoride before, but now there’s fluoride being added to it. It’s being added to bottled water because fluoride helps with keeping cavities out of people’s teeth. People distrust fluoride because they consider it mass medicalization and the compound
ENGWR 300 TTH 10:30 am
Professor Munoz
10/28/14
Journal 7 Bottlemania Chapter 7
Study Questions
1. The title is backlash because people maybe are not buying bottled water anymore. Backlash could be or look like, where people don’t buy a certain object or thing, because of the reputation or history of it. Backlash is from something that people don’t like, whether it’s too expensive, bad reputation, negative purpose of the object or thing, etc.
2. What instigated the initial backlash against bottled water was that it was being way too costly and tax payers wanted to stop contributing to bottled water. Whereas the other issues were that money should be contributed to somewhere more important such as oil.
3. People and organizations attempt to dissuade people from consuming bottled water by saying that the bottled water industry has spent millions to make you sure don’t know what’s actually in the bottled water. That just because the bottled water companies has nice images on their bottles and seems like they make it look healthy and safe when it really isn’t. …show more content…
Fluoride is good to use but not in excess, too much of it can be bad. It’s added to municipal water sources, because it’s to help with peoples teeth. Bottled water didn’t contain fluoride before, but now there’s fluoride being added to it. It’s being added to bottled water because fluoride helps with keeping cavities out of people’s teeth. People distrust fluoride because they consider it mass medicalization and the compound