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In David Zinczenko’s article “Don’t Blame the Eater” he focuses on the fast food industry and their role in the increasing health and obesity issues of our nation’s children, as well as these issues potentially becoming a serious problem that we will all have to deal with if we collectively don’t do something about it now. When it comes to the topic of fast food, most of us can agree that it is not the best source of nutrition. It is unhealthy and can be the cause of many serious health issues with our children such as obesity related Type 2 diabetes, stomach ulcers and even heart disease, high cholesterol, sleep apnea or even cancer. We can even agree that fast-food diets are a major contributing factor to

Obesity has become increasingly more prominent in American society. It is also a major health issue affecting many adults and children in the US every year. In his article "Don't Blame the Eater," David Zinczenko sympathizes with children who are suing McDonald’s making them fat. In his own experience as a “latchkey kid”, he knows how easily fast food makes teenagers put on weight with a steady diet of fast food meals. Zinczenko argues that both lack of fast food alternative companies and lack of providing nutrition information contribute to childhood obesity.

In order to change the way the United States food system is operating at the moment, a change needs to be made in the education that people are receiving about the way their food is produced, manufactured, distributed and consumed. The U.S. food system has become increasingly reliant on mass production factories and multinational retail corporations while local farms and family owned food markets diminish. Economies of scale and opportunity costs represent barriers to change of the current food system because of the many different paths available, each creating different outcomes for consumers, sellers, large corporations and small farms, determining their profit, prices, capital and value. Educating the American people about the benefits of local food production and the downsides of large scale food production, such as nutritional value, disease and safety concerns, and economic advantages, will help to move our food system from “point A” to “point B”.

Many people in America believe that we should eat healthier foods. However, a large portion of the advertising created for food in America is focused on unhealthy foods and products, many of which are nutritionally poor and easily accessible to much of the population. This results in a contradictory ideal towards improvement of health, where individuals will constantly eat unhealthy foods and struggle to lose the weight that they will knowingly gain. If people in the modern American society were to focus more on consuming organic foods and products, people would be healthier, reducing high medical costs and improving the overall well-being of Americans. The benefits of organic foods should also be introduced to children in schools so they

In the article “How Junk Food Can End Obesity,” the author David H. Freeman demonstrates how so many people are very poorly informed on the facts of processed foods and how bad it is for one’s health, he goes on to explain how wholesome foods are supposed to be primarily better for the health of an individual, but that is not necessarily true. In our society, we loudly blame processed food companies mainly directed at fast food companies, for the sole contribution to the increasing rate of obesity. Freedman argues how it is not just fast food companies that are playing such a huge factor, but also the “all-natural organic” stores, like Whole Foods, that we love so much. Its clear most American’s see “all-natural, processed free” products and there is a huge chance that we purchase that product, simply because the advertising draws us in. Another thing he does is gives great examples of how more healthy stores may actually have products that are more harmful than not. He also mentions many different articles that he has read throughout his essay to show the

Once people start to realize what fast food it doing to their kids and better themselves, there will be a positive change for the better. Many fast food industries try to make their foods more appealing to kids by introducing popular character to sway the younger audience. Instead major companies such as MacDonald’s should try to use those characters to promote healthier living and healthier foods, whilst advertising their brand at the same time. Major companies should understand that once people realize how unhealthy their foods are they would be loosing customers. By providing healthier alternative and promoting healthier lifestyles they will be able to keep their customer and be known for promoting a healthier lifestyle a the same

Michael Pollen’s book brought everything together and cleared all my confusion about American food system based on how he tracked the food we eat from the farm to when we swallow it. The environment and economy have been the main shapers of foodways and in many cases people will have crops that are cheap to grow, animal that will grow mostly cheap and which will sell at the best price, and that is what people will eat, they have no choice (Anderson, 2013). This is what exactly happening in America where most of the food we buy in supermarket or restaurant like Macdonald lack of quality. Pollan tracked the corn as the staple crop in America and showed how in most of the food at the supermarket consist of corn, but we buy those food without knowing,

In this first section of his book, Pollan begins by examining the food-production system from which most American meals derive. This industrial food chain is largely based on corn. According to Pollan, we could say that we are “walking corn” as most of industrial food traces its origins to corn whether it is fed to livestock or processed into products such as corn syrup or ethanol. He also explains how this plant spread from Mexico to the entire world by biological, cultural, and economic factors. To finish this part of the book, he explains how wrong we are when we eat industrialized food or fast food and say that we eat a variety of food. He supports this fact by using, as an example, a McDonald’s meal, which items contain a high

Fast-food industries may try to “target children in their ads”, but it ultimately comes down to the adults-the parents- choosing to dine at these places and pork up their kids on the high-sugar sodas, salty French fries, and greasy burgers. If they would just take the time to look out the window, they would see the healthy alternatives to fast-food, and how the alternatives are literally right in front of

Along with these factors the food industry is spreading the sell of high-sugar and high-fat foods, increasing their portion sizes and uncontrollably boosting these products. In the article, “Fast-food Culture Serves Up Super-Size Americans”,  author Bridget Murray discusses “toxic signs” such as Nutritious foods reign, serving sizes keep increasing, and the food Industry has run amok. The food industry has prospered into being in common places such gas stations, vending machines, convenience stores,  serving high-fat, high-sugar food, and restaurants increasing their serving size and promoting bargains for low cost products.  Murray has noted, “ High-fat, High-sugar foods are widely available, taste good and cost less than healthier food”; an example of this would be vending machines. Vending machines contain many fatty foods at low prices as they are convenient to a typical person. The most common source of increasing serving sizes, is McDonald’s use of Super-Size it, which they had made into a verb. The food industry has run amok by serving appealing processed foods, through colorful packaging in addition to using advertisements on television, computers and social media. Children spend most of their day watching T.V., where they view multiple advertisements. In recent articles, “...research has found that children who watch more than three hours of television a day are 50 per cent more likely to be obese than children who watch fewer

We’ve all had those days where we’re in a rush or simply just don’t feel like cooking, therefore we end up buying a juicy burger from the dollar menu at McDonalds, but have we ever wondered where our food comes from? What process did it have to go through to get where it is now? Food Inc. is a persuasive documentary showing you where your food comes from. Throughout the documentary a great deal of Ethos, Pathos and Logos are used while showing us the other side of the food industry. The purpose of this movie was to show America what they’re eating, where it comes from and how they it’s made. They go to factories where meat is not only produced, but other types of foods such as corn are produced. Multiple employees of the food industries are

Bryan Walsh claims that most of our food is increasingly bad for us even dangerous. The world is killing 10 and thousands of cattle, chickens,and pigs. Everyone in the world think that farmers are the enemy there are not but they need help to prove that they aren’t what you think. Organic food continue to cost on average several times more than it’s counterparts, and no goes the farmers markets for bargains. Some south americans are heeding such warning and working to transform the way the calories of potato chips or 875 calories of soda but just 250 calories of vegetables or 170 calories of fresh fruit. As the developing world grows richer, hundreds of millions of people will want to shift to the same calorie-heavy, protein-rich diet that has made Americans so unhealthy but the Earth can no longer delivery. The U.S agricultural industry can now produce unlimited quantities of meat and grains at remarkably cheap prices. Now I just talked about how corn took over america, fat from corn, and getting real about the high price of cheap food.country eats, ranchers and farmers who are raising sustainable food in ways that don’t bankrupt the earth. A study in the american journal of clinical nutrition found a dollar could buy

Oliver, in his Ted Talk, discusses three major culprits for child obesity, which are fast food companies/supermarkets, food labels and schools. Oliver describes how thirty years ago, supermarkets were much more locally owned, with fresh foods, whereas nowadays supermarkets are owned by corporate america, stocking the shelves with highly processed foods, that are extremely high in sugar and fats. School breakfast and lunch is a huge staple in children’s nutrition in the United States, as this accounts for two/thirds of millions of children’s daily meals. Oliver rants that the food school’s provide is filled with a tremendous amount of additives, as well as being highly processed, with a lack of fresh vegetables and nutritious foods. (Oliver, J., 2010)

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In 1980, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) took an interest in organic farming, publishing a report titled Report and Recommendations on Organic Farming. As organic foods have been growing rapidly in the last 20 years there has been a lot of talking about whether or not organic foods are healthy. As people today have been eating a lot more of organic foods they are having arguments stating that organic food is not what they say on the labels. Although people think that organic food is not what the farmers say it is, it still helps people with their health and provides a healthier lifestyle. In order to maintain the apparent understanding of organic food buying behaviors of consumers, it can be helpful to examine the effect of