Are restaurants and junk food producers responsible?
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Are restaurants and junk food producers responsible?
Do you think restaurants and junk food producers are responsible for the obesity epidemic?
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I agree.Gravy wrote:I agree with Jeremy at the end of the book: no single source is deserving of all the blame.
I don't think restaurants and junk food producers are alone responsible for the obesity epidemic, and people have to take personal responsibility as well.
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Calvin is a snot, no question... But who makes you angrier, Calvin or his father Mark? Calvin displays mimicry of Mark's attitude toward the obese, and Mark encourages Calvin's bullying through his own actions and responses.
So, if the book's claim that products are tested until they become like addictive drugs is true, and this is common knowledge among researchers, then which regulatory institutions are turning a blind eye? Don't they deserve a judgmental eye for allowing producers to engage in this activity unchecked?
I was a restauranteur for 19 years before I retired from the industry. Never did any company that I was employed with test food in the manner described in the book, and I worked directly with 4 very high profile chains and had an intricate knowledge of dozens of others. In my mind, the claims that food is tested and modified into an addictive substance would pertain to the producers of the ingredient, not the preparer.
Either the claims about food testing mentioned in the book are baseless, thereby excluding restaurants from any responsibility; or we've been deceived and manipulated, which would mean the liability falls on overseers like the FDA and USDA for allowing and, indirectly, encouraging this behavior. The restaurants are the scapegoat. Either way, it's pretty jacked up to see an institution monetarily penalized for operating lawfully.
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Holidays are exemplified by the food associations, mostly of the sugary kind.
Anything can be a treat if it is treated as such, just ask someone who rarely gets home cooked meals.
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And even the healthier options like eggs can be problematic. You can spend $5 for hormone-free, grain-fed eggs, or buy the $2 versions packed with hormones and who knows what else. If you don't have lots of money to spend on food, you're kind of forced into getting the $2 version even if healthier options exist.
Yes, we do need to practice more personal responsibility as a whole, but at the same time we need to admit that the odds are definitely not stacked in our favor.
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Completely agreebekkilyn wrote:There's also the problem that the junkier foods often cost a whole lot less than the healthy foods, so people who have more financial limitations have more trouble affording the healthier options. I feel like our grocery stores should be packed full of the healthier options and the junk foods be in the smaller "specialty" sections for more special occasions, but it's often the opposite.
And even the healthier options like eggs can be problematic. You can spend $5 for hormone-free, grain-fed eggs, or buy the $2 versions packed with hormones and who knows what else. If you don't have lots of money to spend on food, you're kind of forced into getting the $2 version even if healthier options exist.
Yes, we do need to practice more personal responsibility as a whole, but at the same time we need to admit that the odds are definitely not stacked in our favor.
That's a fair point, but I'd like to counter with a disturbing statistic.bookfix_blog wrote:No. You have to teach yourself discipline. It's just like I wouldn't blame the gun manufacturers for killing people. It's the people and their mindset you should be focused on for killing people as well as with food.
A certain fast food chain spent $963 million on advertising in a single year.
I'd bet that if gun manufacturers spent that much to get people to buy their products there would be a lot more shootings than there already are.
I'm not even arguing because I agree, if people were more aware of the tricks that are being played on them with ads, they would be less susceptible, but they don't spend that much on advertising for nothing. They hack into all the things they know will draw your eye, and make you feel hungry. That is just fact, as well as smart business. But they know what they're doing
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Yes, personal responsibility does seem to be waning, doesn't it?PashaRu wrote:Admittedly, it has become more difficult to eat healthy in recent decades. But blaming restaurants and junk food is a bit of a cop-out. It seems people want to blame their problems on everything and everybody else these days instead of assuming a mote of personal responsibility.