Feed_the_Starving

Feed the Starving Feed the Starving On the issue of world hunger the two essays “Why not use food as food'” and “The Island of Plenty” present opposing arguments. In “Why not use food as food'”, George Will argues that because there is such a surplus of food in America, we should use the extra food to aid other starving countries. Johnson C. Montgomery, author of “The Island of Plenty”, argues the opposite by saying that sharing our food with other nations would only cause a depletion of our resources and the weakening of our country as a whole. Of the two essays, Will’s essay is more persuasive to the reader because though Montgomery’s arguments are more passionate, Will’s objectivity in evaluating the issue is more convincing. Will uses the three different methods of appeal, emotional, ethical, and logical, in his essay. He first uses these when he writes about a dormant limestone mine in Missouri where “the government stores so much surplus cheese, butter, and powdered milk that a visitor would be hard pressed to walk past it all in one day.” He then goes on to tell the reader about the 20 million people in African countries who food, countries, world, starving, people, montgomery, essay, america, writes, will’s, surplus, states, sharing, reader, logical, hunger, helping, because, arguments, argues, about, way, united, two, solve, shortages, resources, problem, plenty, persuasive, objectivity, now, logic, issue, island, government, flawed, extra, example, eventually, ethical, essays, end, depletion, country’s, cause, years, woman, withered, whole