Question

Which sentence is an example of a subjective statement in "A Culinary Wasteland"?

A.Americans are addicted to cheap, bad food, he argues, and like all addictions, this one exacts broad and often unseen costs from the community.
B.Using Colorado Springs as his focal point, Mr. Schlosser takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes tour of the fast-food industry that includes slaughterhouses, poultry processors, artificial flavors, e. coli bacteria and workplace violence.
C.The "fast food mentality," as Mr. Schlosser calls it, has also defaced America's landscape, helped wipe out its small businesses and independent farmers and homogenized people's taste buds to a lowest common denominator.
D.Furthermore, Mr. Schlosser's appraisal is not comprehensive but a hodgepodge of impressions, statistics, anecdotes and prejudices.

Answer 1

The sentence that is an example of a subjective statement in "A Culinary Wasteland" is D, that is, the one that reads "furthermore, Mr. Schlosser's appraisal is not comprehensive but a hodgepodge of impressions, statistics, anecdotes and prejudices".

Subjective statements are based on personal opinions and points of view. They are not facts. On the contrary, objective information includes analysis and is therefore based on facts. It can be measured and prooved.

D is full of words denoting the personal opinion of the writer: comprehensive, hodgepodge of (confused mixture of different things).