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Who's To Blame For Obesity In America?

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There are many questions about the food industry and how they work. For example the biggest one is who is to blame for the obesity in America? The people who chose to eat the food are to blame for the obesity in America. The consumers decide what they eat and where they eat. Yes of course, sometimes the restaurant might not always give people nutrition facts, but the nutrition facts can always be found in the restaurant and online. There are many reasons to blame the consumers like the environment and decisions they make. There are many reasons to blame the factories and farms for the way they produce their food. The factories and farms sell oversized and drugged chicken, but some people still choose to eat that chicken. It is truly to blame the environment that the consumers live in. In the article Causes and Consequences of Obesity” People and families may make decisions based on their environment or community”. The people and families choose where they go to eat and if they choose to go to McDonalds due to their …show more content…

In the Obesity Cartoons the creator of the cartoons tries to show families and people that fast food chains are the reason their children are obese. In the cartoons they try to persuade us to think that fast food is shoving down the food down our throats. We need to try to avoid the persuasion and realizes that the parents and some people chose to eat fast food. According to Rose “We want it tasty, we want it cheap and we want it now. To meet this demand, American manufacturers, pump their food full of sugar, salt, hydrogenated oils, saturated fats, preservatives, dyes, artificial flavors, and a host of bizarre, unpronounceable chemicals that, if you saw them in their pre-processed state, you would never consider putting in your mouth.” Some people chose such unhealthy food that factories had to change their ways just to accommodate are tasted the

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