Are restaurants and junk food producers responsible?
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Re: Are restaurants and junk food producers are responsible?
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TeaAndSpooks wrote:I believe that partially they are. Mostly the additives and imitations and such that they put into the food to make it more addictive and last longer on the shelves. I do believe that its like 85% the persons choice to consume it, though.
Being someone who has Celiac Disease and a few other health issues related to the consumption of certain processed and modified foods (and not just what I have consumed, but of what my mother and her mother and back consumed), I have to say the food INDUSTRY is partially responsible. That being said, we are very overpopulated and the majority of the world that has the highest populations tends to also have tendencies to have easy and inexpensive access to foods that are inexpensive to make. This is often altered foods. What makes gluten so dangerous for me? My body can not take the high amounts that are in our food presently. The modification that makes our grains have 80-100% more gluten than it did 100 years ago, also makes those food products last longer and be able to be spread more thinly among a populace. As the quoted last line of the book says, it isn't just one singular group that is responsible. High population, poverty, low cost for manufacturing foods a certain way, low cost to purchase certain types of food, and so on.
Granted, in a perfect world, people would all have a family size garden made to keep the family stocked in a decent supply of fresh produce, herbs, etc. Meats would be used more resourcefully, hunting in over populated woodlands and grasslands would result in food used from the meat found and as much as could be used from the kill would be used. And so on. But alas, the world is not perfect and many more issues would need to be dealt with.
So no, I do not believe the food companies are the only ones to blame. But those that own it make it very easy for them and for those that need the convenience and low cost.
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The demand for such food is a very good point to be brought up in this discussion. If the demand would not be there, then the supply would dry up in our society. However, that doesn't mean that just because there is that demand for the product that the company supplying it can just make it as cheaply and/or as unhealthy as possible without feeling some sort of repercussions. When things go wrong, there is unfortunately usually plenty of blame to go around.Prisaneify wrote:You have to look at it from all angles. I personally like McDonalds fries, but I haven't eaten them in 6 years because fast food overall makes me feel like crap and I want to be a lot thinner than I am. You can't blame McDonalds because you enjoy fries and shakes every day for breakfast lunch and dinner. They are just trying to make a living and they only came into existence because there was enough demand for their supply.
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Lastly, our culture in general has exacerbated the problem since our youth has become much more sedentary in recent years with the growing popularity of video games, the internet, etc. Add to that households where both parents work, dinners are usually on the fly, courtesy of a drive-through window and voila, there's a huge chunk of the problem right there.
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Also, not to seem like I'm going off topic, but has anyone seen (or even heard of) the movie Branded?
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We, as the consuming public, are more likely to get cancer in our lifetime from the foods we eat or we'll end up becoming obese from eating "unhealthy" foods - and let's not forget about other ailments such as diabetes, etc.
It seems to me that the cards are pretty much stacked against us from the get-go and there's really no one enterprise to blame as the whole thing is a never-ending vicious cycle. Studies have shown that obesity and cancer are more prevalent in developed countries and there's a reason for that. At the end of the day, the choice is ours as to what we eat and how much of it we eat.
Would anyone else like to "weigh in" on this?
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I agree with this. It is simply to easy to lay blame with one single source. This, like many issues, is highly complex and has many, many moving parts. Improvement can be made in all areas, including in restaurants, food production, and personal responsibility and choices.Gravy wrote:I agree with Jeremy at the end of the book: no single source is deserving of all the blame.
This has been a very thought-provoking thread to read!
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