Don T Blame The Eater Summary

It is not a secret that USA is becoming fatter. Zinczenko, in his article “Don’t Blame the Eater”, believe that fast food restaurants and corporations are the ones to blame for the increasing weight gain in America today. Zincenko argues that the lack of healthy options in the United States today is a key concern. “But where, exactly, are consumers-particularly teenagers- supposed to find alternatives. Drive down any thoroughfare in America, and I guarantee you’ll see one of our country’s more than 13,000 McDonald’s restaurants. Now, drive back up the block and try to find someplace to buy grapefruit” (Zinczenko, 154). For me, this quote is absurd because how can you blame the business for a person’s personal decision to eat there? It is the

In his article, Balko agrees with the opinion that people need to take more responsibility for their own personal health and well-being. “Instead of manipulating or intervening in the array of food options available to American consumers, our government ought to be working to foster a sense of responsibility in and ownership of our health and well-being. But we’re doing just the opposite” (158). Balko suggests that the government is babying the American population by putting the blame of obesity in corporations and business’s hands rather than the people of whom are buying the health hazardous products. In addition, one of Balko’s other arguments is that sense the American health care system has become collective enough to a point in which society has stopped worrying about its health in general because individuals know that if they do end up with some sort of health issue, the money will be there to support them. This money he says comes from everyday people in America that pay taxes. If this type of system continues in the United States, the country will continue to get fatter and fatter. However, Balko says that if the government tightens up its grip by integrating in effective changes to some health care policies and putting responsibility back into the people’s hands, then America will gradually slim

“To combat the obesity epidemic we need tighter limits on fast-food marketing. Junk food companies should be kicked out of schools. Perhaps governments should subsidize fruits and vegetables as well as other healthy products” (Engler, 180). These ideas are farfetched and unrealistic. Though taking out junk food in schools and limiting corporations marketing schemes would probably help out the country’s overall health, we cannot take away the freedoms of the people and the business. America stands for freedom and being able to have unalienable rights, and deciding whatever you want to eat is one of them. You cannot just take junk food out of schools filled with kids and put a hold on extreme marketing in which every business has a right to take forth on. It is almost contradicting the morals and values the United States stands for and represents every