Since fat is the new tobacco is giving your kids fast food burgers murder?

Answer 1

Yes.

My kids will not be given fast food burgers by me or my husband.

Or meat, at all, for that matter.

Or fatty snacks (donuts, fries, etc.).

Just good old veggies and fruits, nuts, grains, and soy. Etc.

Answer 2

Yes;. A parent who gives their child fast food burgers everyday is lazy & ignnorant. Fast food is too expensive to have everyday. Every once in a whiile doesn't hurt.. If the child has a balanced diet otherwise. As a mom, my son has fast food once every 6 months. He isn't dead or obese. He is very active.

Answer 3

Giving them fast food as a staple for their diet certainly is. I didn't realize how big of a problem child obesity was until I learned that students were faking illness and having their parents check them out of school early to avoid the "Mile Run" our PE teacher requires of them once a month. One of my student's grandparents just brought Burger King on days they forgot to pack a lunch for him. I think many parents just aren't thinking about the long-term effects unhealthy food has on their children both physically and mentally (it sets you up to like processed food and avoid healthier natural alternatives).

Answer 4

No, i would'nt call it murder. You know your kids better than anyone i assume. It's not what you feed a child, it's how much you feed them.If you only buy fast foods in moderation, say once or twice a month, it should be okay. this is my opinion, and observation of it at hand.

Answer 5

Only if that's the only thing you're feeding them...one or two fast food burgers a week is perfectly fine.

Answer 6

not really. If your child has an eating problem (overweight) then don't give it to them. Give once in a while, but not everyday. I'd say twice a month is good. But it's not nessesarily murder.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

No but giving it to them almost every day of the week along with other foods that are unhealthy , allowing them to be couch potatoes and not introducing them to veggies should be considere a crime.

Answer 9

we are an instant gratifacation nation i say give all the kids in america free value meals twice a week and extended video game time!

Answer 10

Yes,
Because of its convenience, fast food is popular and commercially successful in most modern societies, but it is often criticized for having the following shortcomings, among others:

Many popular fast-food menu items are unhealthy, and excessive consumption can lead to obesity.
Exploitative advertising and marketing are used, especially directed at children (which can have an adverse effect on their eating habits and health).
It causes environmental damage through excessive packaging and clearing forests for animal rearing.
It reduces the diversity of local cuisines.
It survives on a low-wage, low-benefit employment model, promoting exploitative labor practices throughout the food and food service industry
Its franchising scheme (royalties).
Its often lower quality versus sit-down restaurants.
The fast-food industry is a popular target for critics, from would-be populists like José Bové (whose destruction of a McDonald's in France made him a folk hero to some) to vegetarian activist groups such as PETA.

In his best-selling 2001 book Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser leveled a broad, socio-economic critique against the fast food industry, documenting how fast food rose from small, family-run businesses (like the McDonald brothers' burger joint) into large, multinational corporate juggernauts whose economies of scale radically transformed agriculture, meat processing and labor markets in the late twentieth century. While the innovations of the fast food industry gave Americans more and cheaper dining options, it has come at the price of destroying the environment, economy and small-town communities of rural America while shielding consumers from the real costs of their convenient meal, both in terms of health and the broader impact of large-scale food production and processing on workers, animals and land.

Schlosser's critics[10] respond that fast food companies merely provide something consumers want and that the economies of scale developed by the industry have had a net positive effect on the American and global economy. Defenders of fast food companies point out that they provide entry-level jobs to people with few skills who might otherwise be unemployed and that individual consumers should be responsible for their eating choices, not business.

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Legal issues
In 2003, McDonald's was sued in a New York court by a family who claimed that the restaurant chain was responsible for their teenage daughter's obesity and attendant health problems. By manipulating food's taste, sugar and fat content and directing their advertising to children, the suit argued that the company purposely misleads the public about the nutritional value of its product. A judge dismissed the case, but it nonetheless drew unwanted attention to the fast food industry's practices, particularly the way it targets children in its advertising.[11]

In response to this, the "Cheeseburger Bill" [12] was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004; it later stalled in the U.S. Senate. The law was reintroduced in 2005, only to meet the same fate. This law was claimed to "[ban] frivolous lawsuits against producers and sellers of food and non-alcoholic drinks arising from obesity claims." The bill arose because of an increase in lawsuits against fast-food chains by people who claimed that eating their products made them obese, disassociating themselves from any of the blame