Taxing Bad Food

The article “Don't Blame The Eater,” written by David Zinczenko evokes readers the crucial impact that fast food restaurants have in today's nation's youth causing them to be over weight and have type 2ndiabetes. Throughout Zinczenko's argument he makes the reader view the consumer as a victim yet on the other hand, what he is trying to persuade us to believe by using logos,pathos,and ethos in his argument is that the food industry is the one making the nation's youth to increase obesity. The capacity of impressive questions and personal experience, he composed in the text he is able to comprehensively argue against the fast food industry. The author persuades us right away by starting of with a question: “Kids taking on McDonald's this

Shifts in the “Food Marketplace” have greatly affected our food choices and habits in the last 40-50 years. As one woman stated in the film The Weight of the Nation, “It’s so hard to combat with what the tv is telling you to feed your kids”. Advertising has come to a whole new level in our generation; you can’t turn on the television without seeing an advertisement for fast food or something equally as unhealthy. As another woman put it, “you are taught that you can eat anywhere, anytime of day, and that eating is a glorious thing”. Another shift that has occurred is an economic one. If you go into a poor neighborhood corner store like they did in the film, you would see chips, sugar, sweets, etc. All of these unhealthy foods are cheap, incredibly cheaper than fresh fruits and vegetables. Obesity rates in these poor areas are much higher than in areas with a higher average income. Culturally, our country is changing to one that is always moving; we don’t have time to prepare a meal for the whole family. It’s much quicker to buy unhealthy fast food that you know your family will enjoy than to prepare a healthy meal that they will grudgingly consume. The film mentioned that our bodies were originally built for scarcity. We are wired to react to things that are sweet and contain a lot of fat because when an animal was killed we had to be able to eat as much of it as possible. The signals telling us to stop eating had to be overridden. Now, we consume so much fat and sugar not

Some may say if foods contain sugars and trans fats, then don’t eat them; however, the foods containing sugars and trans fats are still unhealthy for everyone. Not everyone knows the consequences of not taking trans fats and sugars out of today’s foods. These trans fats can cause heart disease and other diseases from foods. These are the foods that people want their children to eat, they don’t want their children to end

This essay compares Michael Moss’ “Junk Food” to Virginia Heffernan’s “What If You Just Hate Making Dinner”. Both of these authors write about food, and they specifically discuss the topic of junk food. The key difference between these articles is that Heffernan looks at the topic from the point of view of a consumer, a busy mother seeking a convenience; and Moss focuses more on the food and beverage industry and its impact on the consumers. Many industry professionals, doctors and scientists alike are concerned about spreading obesity epidemic. The similarities between “Junk Food” and “What If You Just Hate Making Dinner” are pronounced, and they deserve thorough investigation.

“ We have become a fast food Nation of bulging waistlines and high blood pressures.”,said Ronnie Cummins in his article, “ Tax on Junk Food Can Help Pay the Costs of Diet-Related Diseases.” Diet related obesity,diabetes and heart diseases are now USA’s number 1 public health problems because of non-healthy foods,this is why there should be a tax on junk food,why we should serve healthier lunches in school cafeterias ,and why we should restrict advertisements of junk foods in the mass media.Would taxing junk food ,eating healthier ,and restricting junk food advertisements be so bad if you thought about how many people it could save?

After Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser was published in 2001 and became a New York Times bestseller, the same titled movie and other food-related documentary movies such as “Super Size Me” (2004) and “Food Inc.” (2009) became smash hits, which may reflect the enhancement of people’s awareness of healthy food in last decade. However, the recent article of Time magazine online shows that today’s food situation does not seem to improve since then, it even got worse. Especially a social problem like a relation between child obesity and fast food draws more people’s attention and some kinds of legislation by the federal government is said to be required to stop the situation get worse (Melnick). There is something should be done by the

Michael Moss, an investigative reporter who enjoys reporting on food, wrote: “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” (pages 471-494). This article reports on the ways that prepackaged food, especially junk food, is being designed to fit the customers’ needs and wants, as well as being something that the body craves. Moss provides multiple accounts throughout the reading in which people who have worked for or created corporate companies design foods just so they will sell. Moss expresses his thought in a clear manner to the reader so he or she will understand that Moss worries about the growing obesity in America and places the blame on junk food corporations. Though junk food corporations have a great part in the growing obesity,

Throughout the articles, each one discussed the author’s perspective on food industries. Two articles argued whether the food companies should be blamed for the health epidemics or it should be a personal responsibility for consumers. While others discussed how food industries manipulate consumers into buying more of their food. Along the same lines, all the articles mentioned how the health epidemic is increasing and who must be fault for the growth. As well as finding a solution and who should help. Although the articles emphasize how obesity rate has grown, the public seems to blame food companies for manipulating consumers and others insist it is a consumer’s personal responsibility.

Recently cook county Illinois, the county that Chicago occupies, repealed their junk food tax after only two months. While the tax might decrease obesity, it comes at a very large cost, which is our state should not have a junk food tax. There should be no junk food tax because it would not completely solve the obesity problem, it would negatively impact the junk food industry and retailers that sell these products, and because most consumers are not in favor of the tax.

School lunches in america are unhealthy for our children. There is not enough nutrient value for a child to last a full day without getting hungry. Studies show that 6/10 students go home saying they're hungry. Athletes tend to pass out during activity because lack of nutrient value. It is very important that students get enough amount of food at school because some kids can't afford dinner at home.

Some of the reasons that people eat and drink all the unhealthy foods is because they are cheaper than buying all the healthy nutrients that you body needs to survive and thrive. Although the government thinks that all the attempts to the solution to taxing unhealthy foods aren’t working, but I think that all the foods that are being taxed are the healthy produce that will go bad in a couple of weeks or even days. One of the solutions to this is that if there are less and less of the unhealthy foods there will be less and less of the unhealthy people in the United States. Some people think that where someone lives is based on what they eat and that can be true, but if we just make less of the unhealthy foods, we will live longer lives and thrive more. All these different attempts to trying to get the government

The first reason that the government should place tax on fast food is because it is seriously dangerous for our health. As we all know, eating a lot of unhealthy food such as fast food can lead to obesity which is a really big problem in the US. That is why placing tax on fast food would really discourage people from eating unhealthy food. However, taxing fast food may not stop people from eating it totally, but it will certainly reduce the consumption of fast food or unhealthy food. As a matter of fact, the main reason behind buying fast food or unhealthy food is because it is not expensive; it won’t cost people a lot of money to get it. As well, nobody buys expensive food every day, what we can see in real life people prefer to buy low

The food companies will do anything to keep the government from interfering in the way the industry runs. The food companies who want the requirement for bacteria testing in meat does not have the well-being of the entire country in mind, they have the bottom line of their bank accounts in mind.

In order to validate that individual consumers definitely play a role in the epidemic of overweight and obesity, it is necessary to state that the entire system that is established by the food industries completely relies on the support and investment of individual people to thrive and succeed. The entire process functions as a cycle in which the food industries create foods and products that people want to purchase,

within our society, the fast food industry has become synonymous with the high obesity rate of