Are restaurants and junk food producers responsible?
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If you're going by this argument, drug dealers shouldn't be held responsible.anneloretrujillo wrote:I don't really see how we could place blame on the restaurants and junk food companies when we are the ones that choose to eat the foods.
Not saying it's exactly the same, obviously it's not, but it is similar enough to warrant the argument.
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Gravy wrote: If you're going by this argument, drug dealers shouldn't be held responsible.
Not saying it's exactly the same, obviously it's not, but it is similar enough to warrant the argument.
I understand your point here, but I wouldn't say that we can hold dealers responsible for the addictions and problems the drugs cause. They are punished for selling items that aren't legal. If they weren't selling the drugs, their buyers would simply go somewhere else. It is the buyers choice to buy and use the drug. The same is true for restaurants and junk food companies.
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It's pretty bad when these places want so badly to save a little bit of money that they'll serve horse meat!
The whole thing is a sad, sorry situation, that just serves as an example of the world we live in, and, until people get fed up with it, nothing will change.
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I agree with you, bekkilyn. I feel that the food industry has a larger responsibility and should therefore take some action in making positive changes. However, I also think that we should better know what we are putting in our bodies and act accordingly.bekkilyn wrote:While I don't believe any one single source is responsible for obesity, I do recognize how powerful the food industry has become and feel that they do have a greater responsibility in general due to holding that amount of power and influence.
We'll use PPG as an example. Would you drink anti-freeze fluid? Probably not, but, most people don't mind drinking the same poisonous ingredients (PPG, artificial dye, etc) found in a lot of popular sodas such as Mountain Dew, candy bars, even pasta meals and toothpaste. It may be "safe" in "smaller" amounts, but that is only if we are ingesting small amounts. Hard to do when so many foodstuffs and drinks list it as an ingredient. Then we have to take into consideration how long it stays in our system, and how it reacts with our bodies. Does it breakdown our immunities and leave us susceptible to Auto-Immune Diseases?
What do you think all these unnatural substances are doing to our bodies? How could our bodies not respond by rebelling against such unnatural ingredients?
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I agree too! People would rather blame others than admit they're too lazy to diet or workout. If you want to be healthy and good-looking, you really have to work for it.PashaRu wrote:Admittedly, it has become more difficult to eat healthy in recent decades. But blaming restaurants and junk food is a bit of a cop-out. It seems people want to blame their problems on everything and everybody else these days instead of assuming a mote of personal responsibility.
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nkkimble1 wrote:no, i don't feel as if they are responsible for the obesity epidemic, plus who says it's an epidemic??? yes it is very prevalent nowadays but is it really worth calling an epidemic? we as humans are gonna to do what we want when we want and that goes for eating what we want when we want, it's not the restaurants or the junk food peoples faults its ours, we want to eat whatever and come up with excuses of why we can't exercise, or we were just born with some kind of abnormality that causes us to gain weight much more faster than the average person, either way we should try to eat as best as we can and make more time for exercise
I agree
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