Annotated Bibliography

My Essay Topic: Why we buy aesthetically appealing food and food packaging.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Dangerous-Food-Additives
It's a list of chemicals and additives found in food and on food packaging that could be dangerous to you. But it seems we still buy these things just because they are appealing. I think  it's helpful since if we do look on food packaging, we can find these chemicals on there and this article links them to dangerous effects.

http://undergroundwellness.com/why-we-buy-unhealthy-foods-part-one/
This is about a psychoanalysis of why people buy more appealing things. It says that companies market their products to attract out subconscious mind, so that we'd feel better about ourselves if we buy this product. One of the things I'd definitely add to my essay would probably be a little social science and psychoanalysis, not only of the consumer but of the marketer.

http://www.examiner.com/food-in-new-orleans/why-we-eat-unhealthy-foods
This talks about why we buy cheaper and easier food, and how advertising and conditioning has made people get used to doing so. It talks briefly about how we'd go for a cheaper, nearer, easier, more efficient and most available choice and get obese. It also talks about how we get little exercise with today's technology as compared to the past when most people didn't have cars so they had to walk or something. This is a little bit of psychoanalyzing, with all the reasons why we buy the brand stuff or the cheap stuff or the most marketed stuff.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/how-about-them-wrapped-apples/
This is an interesting article about how food packaging is important. It explains the effects of packaging, how it prolongs shelf life, so that food wouldn't be thrown out and cause more methane gas emissions, which is more potent than CO2. It might be a good point to include in my article.

http://www.truth-it.net/packaged_food_industry.html
Talks about the convenience of packaged foods' affects on our health. It goes over how the chemicals in packaging are hazardous to human health.

http://quazen.com/recreation/food/reasons-we-buy-packaged-bread-buns-or-rolls/
A list of reasons of why we might buy things (in this case, bread from a store). It might account for some of the psychoanalysis stuff.