We Should Be Responsible For Fast Food

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“Are we taking it too far by blaming fast food restaurants for obesity? When is it individual responsibility and when is it appropriate to place blame?” - Midway College

The quote says it all. We are all responsible for our own choices. The fast food industry is just another business trying to sell a product and survive. But yeah, there should be regulations regarding fast food and its nutrition. Are they still responsible for the obesity epidemic.

So when we are first born, we are legally liable for all the choices that we make. But also there are restrictions to that, I mean you can’t really make a baby eat what you want them to. If parents make the right choices to feed their children healthy food at a young age, then they are more likely …show more content…

So any business owner knows that in order to stay in business, you have to sell a product and increase profits to pay employees and make a little bit on the side. It all comes down to supply and demand. If more people want more fast food, then they will buy more resources and make more food and restaurants. The reason fast food is so successful is because it is fast and you know what you are buying so there are no surprises. If you go to a McDonalds in Portland and order a Big Mac, then go to a McDonalds in Miami and order the same thing, you will get the same thing and it will be no …show more content…

We need a better system for our government funding so that we don’t waste our money when we could be using it on other things that are more important than giving people a free life. If we want to stop the obesity crisis, we have to start buckling down and starting with the basics. The basics are simple and can easlly be regulated with the help of the hard working American people. The first one is that everyone that has food stamps, are required to posses a job at the time of their government funding. If they lose that job, then their support goes away until they get another job. I agree that there should be some kind of reward for having a job. If people that are working, then they are generating tax money to help pay for stuff like food stamps and roads. People should not be allowed to use public goods and services unless they have a job of some kind that generates some kind of tax.

The second plan of attack is to only give people what they need and not what they want. If you want something, you should have to work for it and not make the government pay for it with

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