Peer Response to Kirby's Blog Post 1

Kirby begins her blog by capturing the audience's attention in introducing Michael Pollan's novel, "In Defense of Food." After introducing the title of the novel, she describes what the first section of the novel is made up of by touching on how he starts the book off with the quote, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Kirby then goes into explaining what Pollan believes regarding this topic. Pollan thinks that Americans need to start thinking about what we are putting into our bodies and connects to his readers through stories about his own childhood. He also touches on what the Western Diet is as well as what "nutritionism" is.

Kirby continues blogging about what exactly "nutritionism" is and what it means to Americans. She explains that she agrees with the fact that Americans are worrying too much about nutrients in the foods we eat and how foods are being processed to get the most for our money. I also agree with this statement. I believe that just adding synthesized nutrients to the foods we eat does not make it healthy. Kirby posts a link to a site that focuses on nutritionism and how it is ruining the diets of many Americans. I think this is a great site to incorporate into this particular blog because it goes into detail on a topic she covers in her blog. It helps the reader get a further understanding of nutritionism so that they too can come up with their own opinion on the topic.

To conclude her blog post, Kirby talks about the difference between margarine and butter and Pollan's view on this topic. After directly quoting information from the novel, Kirby adds a little spice of her own. She describes how she was raised on butter. Margarine, in her eyes, is seen as overrated and butter just tastes better. Again, I agree with this statement. It must be a Wisconsin thing, but I was also raised on butter and believe it tastes better than margarine.

Overall, I really enjoyed reading Kirby's blog and agree with everything she had to say. I believe the arguments are clear and her opinions and ideas are very convincing. She does an excellent job introducing a topic and then giving her own personal opinions and ideas regarding the topics. Kirby's sentence structure flowed very nicely and the information presented kept my attention throughout the entire blog!