In Mark Bittman’s “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables,” he highlights the fact that the need for Americans to change their eating habits is urgent and that the SAD diet will result in heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. He makes it clear that it is the government’s responsibility to tax unhealthy food and support healthier foods like fruits and vegetables. He includes a statistical example to display the much needed taxation of soda, for example. Two cents would be taxed per ounce, which doesn’t seem that bad, but when someone goes to buy a six pack of coke, they’ll be paying $1.44 than they usually would. The ultimate goal is for Americans to eat healthier, and if they have to spend more on the junk, they’ll most likely consider buying and eating healthier foods. I completely agree with Bittman in his claim. According to kidshealth.org, every 1 out of 3 kids are obese and that rate is tremendously increasing with all of the fast food and chips and sodas available for kids to easily access. The only way this can change is if the government does something about it, because believe it or not, it’s not the kids fault, or the restaurant’s or store’s fault.
In “No Lunch Left Behind,” an article by Alice Waters, mentions how the National School Lunch Program needs to be redesigned. There isn’t something I could agree with more. Waters and Heron believe that it can be fixed, but more money has to be put into it, and by “it” they mean the actual food, for out of about $9 billion, a very minimal amount of money is invested into the actual food the students are eating. Parents are demanding better school lunches, not just because they don’t taste good (they really don’t), but the lunch meals contain the same bad ingredients as processed foods in fast food restaurants. They close with “every public school child in America deserves a healthful and delicious lunch that is prepared with fresh ingredients.” That is the main point here.
My research topic is about vegetarianism vs. meat eating, which is healthier, and how would only consuming one, affect the food industry.
https://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/what-to-eat/all-meat-vs-vegetarian-diets
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