P. 38 Ex. 2

Alex Head
P. 38 Ex. 2

1. David Zinczenko makes a valid point that the fast food companies are reaching out to individuals, mainly children-through their happy meals that come with cool little racecars or Barbie dolls, and the children aren’t fully knowledgeable about the food they are consuming. They don’t know that these products have a “proven health hazard” if they do they don’t know what that really means. So it is easy to quickly point the finger of blame at the fast food companies, why can’t they take the responsibility to at least make sure that their consumers are aware of what they are really consuming.
But I would suggest to these parents, who have children fighting obesity due to consuming too much of the fast food products, to have home cooked meals prepared for their children. I am aware that many parents work long hours 5-7days a week but that doesn’t mean they can’t take a few minuets to make sure their child has a lunch prepared for them before the following school day. And to make sure that before they leave for work, if they’re not going to be home for dinner, to have something either prepared for the child to warm up in the microwave or have something easily pre-parable for the child to make itself. Even if it is a frozen dinner that just needs to be microwave, there are plenty of those dinners that are going to offer a much more healthier meal than any fast food company can offer.
2. David Zinczenko makes a valid point that the fast food companies are reaching out to individuals, mainly children-through their happy meals that come with cool little racecars or Barbie dolls, and the children aren’t fully knowledgeable about the food they are consuming. They don’t know that these products have a “proven health hazard” if they do they don’t know what that really means. So it is easy to quickly point the finger of blame at the fast food companies, why can’t they take the responsibility to at least make sure that their consumers are aware of what they are really consuming.
Fast food restaurants need to make a change, whether it’s in the food they’re serving or to make it more apparent to the consumer what exactly they are consuming. Legal prosecutions may seem like the easiest, quickest way to solve these problems but they can get lengthy and somewhat expensive. The fast food companies do have some changing to do but turning so quickly to just suing the company lets the children and their parents of the hook, why don’t they have to be responsible for what is being consumed? Both parties need to be aware of the consequences here, though it needs to start with the fast food companies making the health hazards aware to their consumers.
3. Even though both arguments begin the same, the endings are rather different. One puts the majority of the blame on the parents not taking responsibility to make sure their children have something healthy to eat even though they aren’t home. And the other faults most of the blame on the fast food companies, though recognizing that both the parents and children need to take some blame and be aware of the health hazards that lie with eating too much fast food.