HW #5

Dominant Discourse is basically how people are with eachother depending on there specific position and there specific background. An example is like when im pitching and my catcher and coach are telling me to throw a certain pitch I would listen to them or argue to them that I can throw another pitch that I am confident on they are in the dominant discourse if some one from the stands says throw this pitch then they wouldnt be in the discourse becuase they dont have the authoritity or the specific position to be in the discourse. Food fits in the conversation because many people have different things to say about food and what is healthy, or what tastes good there was a qoute in the New York times that said, “Before we want health, we want taste, we want convenience and we want low cost,” Mr. Balzer said in a New York Times article. He argues that most people care for what tastes good and is cheap instead of what is healthy.

The articles were basically on doctors explaining what is healthy and what is good for someone to eat or not eat it shows that doctors should be visited when it comes to getting information on what is good to eat and what is not good to eat. It seems like obese people are not being asked questions and they are being over looked in the whole food and weight issue. I feel that obese and overweight people should as much say as a doctor or someone from the food industry.


A reasonably informed member of the society would most likely eat healthy and would try to inform them selves of the risks of fat foods and they would check the calories of the back of the labels. She would probably get food from a place with healthy foods and things that are fat free. She thinks of food differently then the people who just go off buying food instead of looking at what those calories and sugars can do to your body. She took the time to look at articles and shows talking about the food problem.