blog # 11

Should fast food companies be held responsible for the obesity problem in the US?  Defend your point of view.

 I think that fast food companies should be held responsible for part of the obesity problem in the U.S. I would blamed corn farmer that have an over production of corn and are making product for business to buy and sell to consumer. Instead of doing that they should grow those crop and distributed evenly throughout the world, that is one of the factor of hunger. Fast food should be held responsible for some part of it because they should know if their food that consumers are buying health or not and how will it affect the consumers health after they buy the product. Fast food restaurant should put the nutrition fact on the label of what consumers are buying so that they won't buy so much and realized how much calories they are intake form fast food than from the food they eat at home. If fast food company make healthy product for the consumer to buy than later on they won't have law suite against people being overweight from fast food product. If business like fast food didn't buy unhealthy product from other corporation and process food to sell to the consumers I think that our society right now wouldn't have an obesity epidemic.

Why do you think these messages (from Supersize Me, Omnivore's Dilemma) are being sent?  Why the current interest in food politics?  Explain your answer.

 

 These message from supersize me and Omnivore's Dilemma are being sent out there because they want to make people realize how eating fast food can lead to obesity and the main place it came from was eating at fast food restaurant a lot and corn farmer who produce so much but end up feeding so little people by making the choice to process the food in many ways. The decisions that farmer decided to make after  growing their product depend on a lot of people around the world. Some part of the is starving and other parts are eating too much. If we distribute are crops evenly throughout the world and make less process food the obesity epidemic would be lower.