As many people would recognize, there is a rising obesity problem in America and there are many influences that could contribute to this. Fast food is not the healthiest choice but, they should not be to blame for making children obese. In David Zinczenko’s “Don’t Blame the Eater” he talks about how the obese population is blaming fast food companies for their health situations. He begins his argument with what he observes as a ridiculous headline, which is that kids are suing McDonalds for being fat. David starts by teasing these overweight individuals that are bring a lawsuit against McDonalds, but then later admits that he used to be overweight as a child and was able to change his life around.
I disagree completely that we as Americans suffer from lack of information about nutrition in fast food. Every capable adult knows that eating anything in a fast food restaurant is bad for you. They need to stop being lazy and letting their kids eat fast food frequently, especially if their kids are not very active. It is the responsibility of the parents to feed their kids three healthy meals a day and to make sure that they are maintaining a healthy diet. I do not believe that if fast food industries started putting nutrition labels on their food that it would have a significant difference on the amount of food that people eat.
The Fast Food Industry is responsible for obesity in America as they have many fast food restaurants typically many within a small radius providing cheap easy solutions to societies hunger. David Zinczenko, a writer for The New York Times, describes marketing powers in his assessment "Don't Blame the Eater" he states that just about all fast food restaurants falsely advertise their foods and pass to many as a "healthy" meal choice but little do people know is that they are still extremely unhealthy foods that should not be included in anybody's diet what so ever. There has been many varieties of marketing techniques developed over the years of the fast food industry's attempts to persuade others to eat at their establishments. The fact that the foods they are extremely unhealthy for people of all ages from kids to adults is helping to cause obesity throughout America although some may be aware of the risks the average American still continues to eat out at fast food establishments along with the family giving the fast food industry a chance to get the entire family hooked for life. Going to fast food restaurants to prove his theory about how horrible fast food restaurants are for the human body.
Summary of “Working atMcDonalds” by Amitai Etzioni In "Working at McDonalds" Amitai Etzioni argues that the jobs undertaken by teenagers in this fast food franchise are bad for them. In as much as they contribute to the aims of education by making the teenagers self- reliant, these jobs have a myriad of negative impacts in their lives. These positions do not teach any entrepreneurial skills, self-supervision, self- discipline and even self- scheduling. In order to justify his arguments, Etzioni provides a number of worrying facts including; twenty-one percent of all employees in America are the minority and that most teenagers do not pay attention to school work as they should. As such, the quality of education that they receive is quite poor and degrading instead of building.
There should not be open campus at schools. The school would lose profits from the lunches, the food consumed by the students outside of school will most likely be unhealthy, and the students would not be under any supervision. Open campus would have a negative effect on schools and its students. The students would leave during lunchtime to get themselves McDonalds or Burger King to eat. Meanwhile, our already poor school loses profit to these fast food restaurants.
Kelly Grant English 100 11/12/2012 In Amitai Etzioni's "Working at McDonald's” She argues that that although McDonalds does more than just provide calorie filled foods and hold responsibility for millions of clogged arteries but it’s bad for teenagers in another sense other than health. She states “McDonald’s is bad for your kids. I do not mean the flat patties and the white-flour buns; I refer to the jobs teenagers undertake, mass-producing these choice items”. Then she goes on to discuss the negative effects on high school students working in fast food restaurants such as McDonalds. She feels that they show teenagers no real skills that they could use elsewhere in the work field, that they promote kids to drop out by distracting them from focusing on school and their studies, and also ruins their value of a dollar.
Essay responding to the articles of Radly Balko and David Zinczenko In the reading “ Don`t blame the eater “ David Zinczenko talks about obesity, growing as a result of fast food eating and he argues about whose responsibility this is . Is it the food company`s responsibility for not providing accurate nutrition information, or is the costumer`s responsibility, especially teenagers, for eating fast food meals on a daily basis ? David Zinczenko relates himself to these kids by telling about his personal experience and how the separation of his parents affected his lifestyle by making fast food his only available option to get affordable meals. Another reason that makes people become more addicted to fast food, other than
The food children will eat is not what you will find in an average cookbook. Behind the tasteful burgers and fries are food technologists and food engineers producing artificial “flavorful food”. Many kids at a young age are still forming their eating habits, if children continue eating fast food this will lead to adult obesity. Not only are people that are consuming the food in danger, the workers manufacturing are also in great danger as
All my friends eat fast food and I don’t want to be left out, 8. Healthy food diets are too weird, 9. My favorite actress/supermodel eats junk 10. If junk food is that bad for you, wouldn’t they outlaw it? People should cut back on junk food, because it's a waste of money, lack of nutrients, and it can lead to serious sickness.
In “The battle against fast food begins in the home” by Daniel Weintraub he is stating that parents are at fault for children’s obesity and their eating habits. Weintraub also says that the food companies shouldn’t be blamed for people gaining weight and becoming unhealthy by eating their food all the time. In this article Weintraub is blaming the parents which in my opinion is correct for him to do that because parents should teach their children what to eat and what not to eat. I don’t understand how people could blame a food company for making them fatter. That is absurd; if people don’t want to gain weight then they shouldn’t eat there or allow their children to eat there if they are going to complain about it.