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The Passage: (a letter-to-the-editor in the Daily Herald, Provo's newspaper, published today)
Wholesome Food Alternatives Available
What ever happened to the good old days when the worst things we had to fear on the Fourth of July were traffic jams and wayward fireworks?
According to the USDA's Meat & Poultry hot line, this year's top threat is food poisoning by nasty E. coli and salmonella bugs lurking in hamburgers and hot dogs at millions of backyard barbecues. The hot line's advice is to grill them longer and hotter. Of course, they don't bother to mention that the high-temperature grilling that kills the bugs also forms lots of cancer-causing compounds.
Luckily, a bunch of enterprising food manufacturers and processors have met this challenge head-on by developing a great variety of healthful, delicious and convenient, veggie burgers and soy dogs. These new foods don't harbor nasty pathogens or cancer-causing compounds. They don't even carry cholesterol, saturated fats, drugs or pesticides. And they are available in the frozen food section of every supermarket.
This Fourth of July offers a great opportunity to declare our independence from the meat industry and to share wholesome veggie burgers and soy dogs with our family and friends.
Fallacy Assignments:Ad Hominem: Colter
Guilt by Association: Douglas
Poisoning the Well: Myriah
False Authority: Jessica
Ad Populum: Sam
Threats/Rewards: Gabe
Red Herring: Kate
Begging the Question: Kindal
Hasty/Sweeping Generalization: Scott
False Analogy: Josh
Post Hoc: Derek
Slippery Slope: Adrienne
Oversimplification: Aaron
Stacking the Deck: Andrew
Appeal to Ignorance: Cameron
Non Sequitur: Jennifer
False Dilemma: Macy
Strawperson: Carli
