Controversy arose recently in the wider community over the Victorian Governments proposal to ban junk food from school canteens. Within the media there has been varied opinions concerning the issue, with Herald Sun contributors Neil Mitchell and Bettina Arndt both offering the opinions against the ban in two well structured pieces of prose, but with two different styles. Mitchell uses a sarcastic yet assertive tone and Arndt uses a critical and frustrated tone. The Sunday Herald Suns editorial rationally outlines why the bans are need to deter the growing trend of childhood obesity in Australia.
"Lunch Time Losers" (Herald Sun, 27 April, 2006), Neil Mitchell's opinion piece use an unappealing photo of contestants from the weight loss program "The Biggest Loser" to draw the readers attention, he then uses the rhetorical question "Did they start out by eating the wrong school lunches?" This suggest to the reader that it is foolish to think that adults end up obese all because of......
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