Transcript Food Borne Illnesses

Dakota Parker
Nate Brillhart
Justin Treat
Food Borne Illnesses
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What’s a food borne
illness?
It is any illness
resulting from the
consumption of
food
contaminated
with, pathogenic
bacteria, viruses,
or parasites.
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Forms of Food Borne Illness
Listeria
 E. coli
 Salmonella
 Staph Bacteria
 Hepatitis A
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Thesis
 Most
Authors agree that the common
person is not well educated about how to
prevent and treat food borne illness.
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Authors Reasons
Many people are not informed about how to
prevent food borne illnesses.
 If someone has a food borne illness people
don’t know how to get rid of them.
 When people get food borne illnesses its
usually from foods that come from other
countries, and in a certain incident it came
from, food that was grown in America and it
was a huge shock to people.
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Food Safety
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Authors Position- Food Borne Illness are an increasingly
important health issue. Governments all over the world are
intensifying efforts to improve food safety. These efforts are a
response to increasing number of food safety problems.
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Statistics- “76 million cases of food borne disease, resulting
in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths, are estimated
to occur each year”
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Repetition- Repetition of the WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
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Appeal to Emotion- 5,000 deaths occur each year
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How to Prevent Them
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Author’s position
 People are not taking the necessary steps to
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preventing food borne illnesses.
Rhetorical Devices
 Appeal to emotion “...can develop a a lifethreatening form of kidney failure.”
 Appeal to reason with statistics “36,000 pounds
of ground turkey packed by Cargill were recalled
because of salmonella contamination
 Loaded Words (contamination, antibiotic
resistant, deadly, etc.)
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Cantaloupes
Rhetorical strategies
Loaded words: “killed”, “deadliest food-borne
outbreak”, ‘sickened”
Tone – Persuasive
Appeal to Reason – “The current outbreak, caused
by cantaloupes grown in Colorado, has sickened
more than 70 people and killed at least 13, making
this the deadliest food-borne outbreak in the United
States in more than a decade”.
Authors Purpose – to show that food borne illnesses
don’t always come from foods from other countries it
can come from America also.
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Video
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http://news.yahoo.com/video/health15749655/food-borne-illnesses26839143.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fhealth15749655%252Ffood-borne-illnesses26839143.html
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Bibliography
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http://news.yahoo.com/video/health-15749655/food-borne-illnesses26839143.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fhealth-15749655%252Ffood-borne-illnesses-26839143.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/business/costco-urges-stricter-safety-measures-oncantaloupes.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=costco%20urges%20stricter%20safety%20measures%20on%20ca
ntaloupes&st=cse
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http://asymptotia.com/2008/08/11/ecoli-stories/
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http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/botulism.asp
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2011/09/28/the-5-deadliest-food-borne-illnesses-and-howto-prevent-them
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