If You Pitch It They Will Eat Analysis

In the articles we read we learned about obesity and fast food franchises. We had to choose what side we are on; it is the consumer's fault that they are obese or if it is the fast food industries fault. The perspective that I took was that it is the consumer's fault he and/or she is obese. The first reason why I agree is “ What ever happened to personal responsibility…so let's put the responsibility back on the consumer”,this was from Letters to the Editor. The first evidence I have is from the article “ If You Pitch It, They Will Eat” it states in paragraph nine that “ the number of obese children has more than doubled to sixteen percent.” The second evidence from Letters to the Editor, “Fast food is just like other hazards in life such as alcohol and cars. It’s OK in moderation and it’s dangerous when taken to extremes. And everybody, including kids, knows this without a warning label to tell them.” The last evidence is from Letters to the Editor, “Americans have developed a victim mentality. They want to find someone to blame for everything that happens to them.”
My first piece of evidence is from Letters to the Editor, “ The real problems that parents don't want to take the responsibility for their children. They sit them in front of the television. The second evidence I found was from the same article, “ They let them run wild on the streets. And they turn over the job of feeding them to a corporation that only cares about its profits. The last evidence was from the article Battle Against Fast Food Starts At Home in paragraph twelve, “No one seems to want to tell parents that they need to protect their children from unhealthy