2007-04-20 07:16:12 · 12 answers · asked by Rissa 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
We Americans believe that freedom is more precious than anything. If people aren't free to make bad decisions (as based on third party judgments), then they aren't free at all. If I cannot decide what to put into my body, then I don't own my body, which is a good definition of a slave.
People should not only be allowed to make their own decisions, but they should also have to pay the price for those decisions. For example, if you choose to smoke, you should not expect public money to treat your lung cancer. That is how socialism creeps up on us.
2007-04-20 07:24:01 · answer #1 · answered by 1,1,2,3,3,4, 5,5,6,6,6, 8,8,8,10 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
In addition to the freedom of choice issues involved, your question also assumes that unhealthy foods cause obesity. Actually it's the amount of food that causes obesity. You can be at a good weight and still indulge in ice cream or donuts occasionally. Conversely, you can get fat on loads of "healthy" foods such as whole wheat bread.
2007-04-20 07:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by Lepke 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well, for one its a free country and its an infringement on your rights to not be able to choose what you want to eat. If we did that, where would it stop - banning cars because of accident deaths? Banning home heating because of the threat of carbon-monoxide poisoning? Second, how do you define healthy? For some healthy means low-fat, for others it means low-carb, etc. Agreeing on what should or should not be banned would be impossible. Third, healthier foods are often more expensive (look at the prices of organic foods) and people would think this would be unfair to the poor. Fourth, the fast-food industry is big-business - lots of tax revenue, lots of jobs. Its just not gonna happen!
2007-04-20 07:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by Esmeralda 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, what they should do is ban it from people who are overweight and have no self control when it comes to eating healthy. Why should people who have constraint and lead healthy lives be punished because someone decides to eat at a fast food place everyday and does nothing truly physical, and years from now they wonder why they got so fat and decide to sue the fast food corporation. It is not mine nor the fast food companies fault for making that person fat. For the obese children go take a look at what a lot of those parents feed their kids! 3 year olds weighing up to 150-200 pounds! Talk about child endangerment! These parents should have children services called on them and investigated. I understand if it would be a medical condition and medically proven he has a condition. But when I see the parent openly say about they willingly feed their kid all this junk food, that is absurd. Not to mention laziness in the factor as well. For adults, though, tough luck on them! I will be damned if I am told I am not allowed to buy a quarter pounder because some person has no self control at all and is lazy and became obese!
2007-04-20 07:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by Fallen 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's not just junk food that is causing U.S. obesity. Americans don't do enough physical labor to use up the calories they take in. Even people who eat balanced meals, and don't snack are at risk of becoming overweight. However, some studies link the rise of obesity to when the softdrink industry switched from sugar to high-fructose corn syrup. Thirty years ago one of my husband's professors talked about the ability of high-fructose corn syrup to add fat to animals in a feedlot. He believed it would never be used in human food because of this. He undereestimated corporate greed. For over 50 years the food industry blacklisted researchers who dared to question the safety of hydrogenated fats (vegetable shortening), yet finally this issue is in the open. The number of foods made with hydrogenated fats is going down.
2007-04-20 07:35:44 · answer #5 · answered by mindshift 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unhealthy food is not the problem,it's the amount of food an individual consumes,we have more Buffet Restaurants than any other country where people stay for hours eating,even though they are not hungry,and our fast food places for extra money will giant size any item on the menu
2007-04-20 07:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-26 16:50:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because we have the right to get fat lol they should make restaurants show us the ingredients and calories in their food though like the manufactures have to with the food they sell us
2007-04-20 07:54:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
freedom is a beautiful thing.
is like people who smoke, but when they get cancer they complaint about the companies
and
my tax money have to pay their medicines.
weird um?
2007-04-20 07:26:38 · answer #9 · answered by J.C. 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because it is not the governments place to dictate what people can and can not eat.
2007-04-20 07:24:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋