In the article "Bad food? Tax it, and subsidize Vegetables" by Mark Bittman, it hits on what I my topic is immediately. First of all, my topic is about the food economy, and how it doesn't equally share with the public concerning prices. In this article, it directly states, " Sweetened beverages could be taxed at 2 cents per ounce, so a six-pack of Pepsi would cost $1.44 more than it does now." What I am trying to say is the average soda is most likely 2 times less than water is today, and that is part of the problem, the other part is how they are raising the prices of healthy food and lowering the prices of unhealthy food. Switching it up will maybe save money that "could be returned to communities for local spending on gyms, pools, jogging and bike trails; " So, in general solving this could overall make a better community in cities that don't have a lot of variety in their vacancy, like creating recreational parks and libraries, etc. My argument is that these companies can do this and think they can get away with it, but we see it all the way through, (people who want to see it, that is) and it's not something we should be putting up with if the government's responsibility is to make us healthier, through a S.A.D system. (Kind of ironic) It can't be up to the people to make a stand for ourselves in order to sway the food system to make prices lower for healthier foods, it should be the government's priority that we get what we need in order to make the right choices. We just can't be corrupt, and be shady, as in the constitution it starts with, "We the people". It does not say "We the few" this isn't no communist country or whatever it is called when only a few people can actually make a difference, everyone can make a change and it all starts with the decisions we make day-by-day with the food that we eat.
If I was to point out a very important point that refers to what my topic is about, it's the idea that the people in charge are "justifying a tax". They are starting to make the soda expensive with the "excise tax" that they are trying to get passed. " 'Excise taxes have the benefit of being incorporated into the shelf price, and that's where consumers make their purchasing decisions' says Lisa Powell, a senior research scientist at the institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago." This is good for solving the problem because they are finally taxing the bad, unhealthy food little by little, and I encourage anyone who is looking at the same topic to use this as a tool to have a better effective essay.
"No lunch Left Behind" by Alice Waters consists of the topic of school lunch, the prices, and how some food is always thrown away because the students don't like it. One effect I think that is the reason why this is a problem is quoted in the article, " But food distributed by the National School Lunch Program contains some of the same ingredients found in fast food,.." The theory here is that students are fixed on what is tasty, more than what is healthy, and the solution to this is to basically get more healthier food in those cafeterias.
source: "Bad food? Tax it, and Subsidize Vegetables" by Mark Bittman (the new york times) july 23, 2011
That's cool, I like the last part of the first paragraph where you say that the Constitution says "We the People" and not "We the few". It would be a hard and grueling process to switch up the taxes, to speed it up just a tad bit it would be on the middle class people and upper class to make decisions when it comes to buying their food. I say that because in the end there is no food economy without its consumers.
ReplyDeleteThe concept that unhealthy food is so much cheaper than healthy food is ridiculous. The government should definitely do something about making sure that everyone, especially the less fortunate, have easy access to healthy food choices. If only unhealthy choices are accessible, then that's what is going to get consumed. It should be more about getting people to be healthy than the government pocketing money at the expense of the people's health problems like cancer and obesity. If the obesity epidemic can decrease by taxing unhealthy food, then so be it. Healthy food is more of a priority.
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