Don T Blame The Eater Summary
Fast Food or Consumers: You be the Judge.
Old McDonald had a farm. We all know that childhood song our parents used to sing to us growing up. Unfortunately, we (the American people) were on that farm acting as their livestock. They made millions off of our need for their fast convenient food. But who’s really to Blame? David Zinczenko tries to answer this question in his article called “Don’t Blame the Eater”, by comparing the rise in childhood heath issues with the popularity and convenience of the fast food industry.
When we begin to read a page or two of his writings, Zinczenko’s message begins to quickly reveal itself, “Childhood obesity has risen since 1994”(392), and according to Zinczenko and the National Institutes of Health, “Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood cases in the country today”(392). How does that affect me you may say? Your question should be restated to how does this affect us? Since 1969 we as a nation have spent 2.6 Billion dollars in health care costs, and the total has risen over the years to a whopping 100 Billion dollars today (Zinczenko …show more content…
Shouldn’t we as a consumer know better than to eat more than one meal a day at a fast food joint (Zinczenko 392)? Zinczenko implies that today’s Americans eat fast food purely because of its convenience, but the underlying tone of his article keeps hinting at the fact that the fast food industry is at fault. He clearly explains that there is a lack of nutritional labeling on fast food that leads to consumers being misguided to what they are really eating, which could lead to increased health issues in adults and children. For example; if you order a chicken salad with a large Coke to drink you are actually ingesting more than 1,490 calories (Zinczenko 393), which is half of the governments recommended calorie
Old McDonald had a farm. We all know that childhood song our parents used to sing to us growing up. Unfortunately, we (the American people) were on that farm acting as their livestock. They made millions off of our need for their fast convenient food. But who’s really to Blame? David Zinczenko tries to answer this question in his article called “Don’t Blame the Eater”, by comparing the rise in childhood heath issues with the popularity and convenience of the fast food industry.
When we begin to read a page or two of his writings, Zinczenko’s message begins to quickly reveal itself, “Childhood obesity has risen since 1994”(392), and according to Zinczenko and the National Institutes of Health, “Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood cases in the country today”(392). How does that affect me you may say? Your question should be restated to how does this affect us? Since 1969 we as a nation have spent 2.6 Billion dollars in health care costs, and the total has risen over the years to a whopping 100 Billion dollars today (Zinczenko …show more content…
Shouldn’t we as a consumer know better than to eat more than one meal a day at a fast food joint (Zinczenko 392)? Zinczenko implies that today’s Americans eat fast food purely because of its convenience, but the underlying tone of his article keeps hinting at the fact that the fast food industry is at fault. He clearly explains that there is a lack of nutritional labeling on fast food that leads to consumers being misguided to what they are really eating, which could lead to increased health issues in adults and children. For example; if you order a chicken salad with a large Coke to drink you are actually ingesting more than 1,490 calories (Zinczenko 393), which is half of the governments recommended calorie