The main ideas behind these two articles "Bad food? and subsidize vegetables", by Mark Bittman and "No lunch left behind", by Alice Waters and Katrina Heron, both have to deal with how the food industry is ran by money and how The government should do more to improve our health. Bittman comes with the idea that the government should come up with a tax on junk food, he states "taxes have the benefit of being incorporated into the shelf price, and that's where consumers make their decisions". His idea would result in a huge decrease of people consuming junk food due to the higher cost. He compared those results with how our government came together to shine the light on smoking back in the day. Similarly, Water believes that the government should be more involved when it comes to school lunches because they're allowing foods that arent nutritional for the students and are resulting in increasing amounts of people with type 2 diabetes.
For those of you who are doing your research on the environmental impact due to agriculture, I highly recommend you go over to http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts. This shows you in depth facts on how animal agriculture is the leading cause of all of our environmental problems. The full documentary "Conspiracy" is available on Netflix so I would check it out if I were you . :)
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