DUE DATES Banning Behavior: vocabulary; Are We a Nation of Addicts? 6
Practice Question
Read this sentence from "Are We a Nation of Addicts?"
"A recent article in the New York Times The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food by Michael Moss
• showed how companies use science to design food that consumers will crave."
Why does the author use the phrase use science to design food?
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to describe how food companies perform tests on their products to make sure they taste good
to explain why one in five children in the United States is obese
© to persuade readers not to trust food manufacturers
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