-In the article "Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables" by Mark Bittman. It discusses how we should start taxing unhealthy goods; such as soda and donuts. This suggestion was made to help people eat healthier. So if people have to pay more money to buy unhealthy food than their next option would be to buy healthy food. The author assumes that it will make people make a change to start eating healthier. He suggest that we tax the unhealthy goods, because of all the affects it's having on people such as type 2 diabetes and obesity. I agree with his idea to start taxing the unhealthy food, because it is causing so many more unnecessary health problems. Which people end up paying more to by medication to fix. One surprising benefit I found of the tax law was that it could, "prevent 1.5 million Americans from becoming obese and 400,000 cases of diabetes, saving about $30 billion." Which could change the way are society eats in the long run and functions.
-In the article "No Lunch Left Behind" by Alice Waters and Katrina Heron. It discusses how the National School Lunch Program should be redesigned. Due to it not being healthy and containing some of the same ingredient as fast food restaurants. The author States how the Lunch program uses processed food that's easy to cook and the cheapest to buy. Parents are demanding a change in the lunch program, which with some time will be easy to fix. I agree with Waters statement that, "we can teach students to choose good food and to understand how their choices affect their health and environment." Which demonstrates with healthier food we can make a change in our life.
-My Research Topic is about food waste and it's affects on third world countries. One resource that has a lot of information is http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1554/3065.short
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