Summary: Fast Food Shouldn T Be Blamed

Fast Food Shouldn’t Be Blamed!
Do you blame McDonalds for those extra few pounds you gained last weekend? Well, you shouldn’t! In sites including College of Aces and CBS news they cover the importance of not blaming fast food industries for obesity. Ashely Welch from CBS news explains “...according to the study from the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, junk food does not appear to be leading cause of obesity in the United States. Rather, the researchers suggest that the blame lies with Americans’ overall eating habits -- particularly the amount of food consumed.” Fast food should not be blamed for obesity because americans have poor eating habits both at home and in public, the food companies have labels on the food and people still
insist on eating it, and americans like to use fast food as a scapegoat. Americans have poor eating habits all around. In Factory Foods by Hannah Fairfield “Americans eat 31 percent more packaged food than fresh food, and they consume more packaged food per person than their counterparts in nearly all other countries. A sizable part of the American diet is ready-to-eat meals, like frozen pizzas and microwave dinners, and sweet or salty snack foods” Hannah shows how bad americans’ eating habits are by showing how a great amount of our food is ready-to-eat-meals and frozen meals. She begins by saying americans eat 31% more packaged food! That’s insane! And that’s not just at fast food places or restaurants! That’s also at home, for snacks, for lunch, for breakfast. They even tell you all about the product you’re about to eat.
Companies have labels! If you complain, read them! In Fast Food - Is it the Enemy? By Sarah Muntel, Sarah gives examples of everyday fast food menu items, just to name a few; McDonalds Big Mac: 540 calories and 29 g of fat
Burger King Whopper: 670 calories and 40 g of fat
Wendy’s Bacon Deluxe Double: 880 calories and 52 g of fat
Taco Bell Nachos Bell Grande: 770 calories and 24 g of fat
The same labels are on the packages, warning what is in them.
A McMuffin Has the labels, Nutritional Facts and a website to go to for further information. All you need to do is look at it, decide if it’s what you really want and if no, walk away, if yes, eat at your own risk. You have the choice to either not eat it or to eat it, knowing what you’re eating, there is no need to blame them. Americans, and just people in general, use fatty foods, snacks, companies and fast foods as scapegoats.
In We Can’t Blame Obesity on Fast Food by Gimmie-Five, they introduce the idea, “...This is much of the logic behind a movement to punish the fast food industry. Many people are suing McDonalds, Burger King, and other firms, claiming various things, all of which amount to an accusation that these fast food firms are creating an environment in which people are “encouraged” to eat poorly, thus acting as a main cause for obesity”. People use their “encouragement” as evidence against them, the advertisements they see, they see it as them forcing or “encouraging” them to eat the food. They use both propaganda and advertisement to make you want the product, but it still give you the option to say no. People still take this as a way of them making you buy and eat the product, therefore blaming them for gaining pounds, and eventually using it as a scapegoat, then saying “Oh, I gained 7 pounds this week, guess it’s the McDonalds I ate!”. In conclusion, Americans have a problem with their eating habits, Don’t read the labels and finally uses junk food as a blaming mechanism. To stop blaming the fast food industries people in general need to see that they are just selling a product and not forcing the people to eat that product. If you don’t feel comfortable eating the junk food they are selling then don’t eat the food, and if you aren’t reading the labels you shouldn’t accuse them for the lack of
knowledge.