SWA # 12

Waters, Alice. "A Healthy Constitution." The Carolina Reader: 3rd ed. Lee Kauknight. Fountainhead Press, 2012. 337-9. Print.


        In the article "A Health Constitution," Alice Waters discusses the issue of food in schools. Waters thinks that the food that students get in their schools is unhealthy and causes obesity. Then, she presents an example of a school in Wisconsin whose the administrators decided to have only fresh, healthy and delicious food. She mentions the fact that this idea works well and everybody likes it and they have more healthy student than they used to have. She thinks this idea is not only good for the students bodies, but also for their minds because they have become more understanding to the food and its values. It also makes students have more responsibility and feel that they have to do something for their society.   


        In her paper, Alice Waters tries to use logic and maybe some emotion to support her claim. By providing the example of Wisconsin school, she tells the readers that it is not too hard to change our children eating habits.She discusses the logical benefits that we would get by having students grow and help in cooking their food and how it would be fruitful for them in the future. By having mentioned these values, Waters tries to convince her readers to support the idea of having an edible education. She also quotes some students' opinions about their good experience in school with healthy food to back up her claim.