Should We Ban Competitive Eating By Richard Sine Analysis
According to the article, “Competitive Eating: How Safe Is It?” by Richard Sine. And the article, “Should We Ban Competitive Eating?” by Sarah McCarry. Competitive eating should not be banned because the benefits of competitive eating outweigh the risk.
Many competitors make a living on competitive eating, earning thousands of dollars each year. According to the first article, “As the size of the audience for competitive eating has grown, so has the prize money. Chestnut won $10,000 along with his Yellow Belt at the Nathan’s contest (Sine, 1). This pretty much sums up the point that competitive eaters can make a lot of money doing what they do. Takeru Kobayashi takes the whole idea of making money in competitive eating to a new level. “Major
League Eating (MLE), which oversees professional contest, doles out thousands of dollars in prize money each year. Winners can also win big bucks in sponsorship deals. World-famous eater Takeru Kobayashi is reportedly worth a million dollars” (McCarry, 1). One million dollars is a lot of money to be earned in competitive eating.
Competitive eaters are not just regular people that eat a lot. They have special abilities and take very good care of their bodies. “Metz suspects that competitive eaters may have some natural ability to stretch their stomachs and may also be able to train the muscles in the stomach walls” (Shine, 1). David Metz is an gastroenterologist, so he knows what he's talking about. These competitive eaters are not just regular people eating lots of food, they are trained professionals.
Some people, of course, may want to question the safety of competitive eating. According to the first article by Richard Sine, “Sitaram was surprised when, doing a search of the medical literature of the past several years, she found no reported complications from competitive eating, short of a single case of a jaw fracture”. Shanthi Sitaraman is a gastroenterologist at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Basically what this means is that although many think it is very dangerous they don’t really have any evidence against it.
As you can see, their are not a lot of reasonable reasons to ban competitive eating. It has been around for thousands of years and should continue to stick around.
Many competitors make a living on competitive eating, earning thousands of dollars each year. According to the first article, “As the size of the audience for competitive eating has grown, so has the prize money. Chestnut won $10,000 along with his Yellow Belt at the Nathan’s contest (Sine, 1). This pretty much sums up the point that competitive eaters can make a lot of money doing what they do. Takeru Kobayashi takes the whole idea of making money in competitive eating to a new level. “Major
League Eating (MLE), which oversees professional contest, doles out thousands of dollars in prize money each year. Winners can also win big bucks in sponsorship deals. World-famous eater Takeru Kobayashi is reportedly worth a million dollars” (McCarry, 1). One million dollars is a lot of money to be earned in competitive eating.
Competitive eaters are not just regular people that eat a lot. They have special abilities and take very good care of their bodies. “Metz suspects that competitive eaters may have some natural ability to stretch their stomachs and may also be able to train the muscles in the stomach walls” (Shine, 1). David Metz is an gastroenterologist, so he knows what he's talking about. These competitive eaters are not just regular people eating lots of food, they are trained professionals.
Some people, of course, may want to question the safety of competitive eating. According to the first article by Richard Sine, “Sitaram was surprised when, doing a search of the medical literature of the past several years, she found no reported complications from competitive eating, short of a single case of a jaw fracture”. Shanthi Sitaraman is a gastroenterologist at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Basically what this means is that although many think it is very dangerous they don’t really have any evidence against it.
As you can see, their are not a lot of reasonable reasons to ban competitive eating. It has been around for thousands of years and should continue to stick around.