Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Bittman's article talks Americans changing their eating habits and responsibilities. How taxes on on food would reduce consumption of unhealthful foods and generate billions of dollars annually. That money could be used to subsidize the purchase of foods like seasonal greens, vegetables, whole grains, and fruit. This article also explains that putting a tax on soda and all sugar-sweetened beverages could help the market. Basically this article is talking about how putting a tax on sweet things and junk food will make people stay clear of those more and go more towards healthy food. Waters’ article is about school districts and what they serve to students. When they serve fast food ingredients they are failing to meet the nutritional standards. But, it’s all about money after all. The government needs to give more money to these schools so they can serve better food to us making us healthier. I think these two articles really point out to us the financials of this whole issue and if we all just start our kids off with being healthy and eating good it should help them once they grow up and go into the real world. I also think the tax on the unhealthy food should be tried in a state to see how it goes because I think it is a good idea.

2 comments:

  1. I agree that the government needs to play a bigger part in providing schools with healthy foods. Kids will begin to develop healthy eating habits from a young age and move on to teach their kids to eat just as healthy, preventing more disease and obesity overall. Also, in keeping schools healthy, maybe the idea will move onto fast food restaurants and what kinds of foods are sold in grocery stores. Overall, it would be a great step towards keeping everyone on a healthy, nutritional diet.

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  2. If the unhealthy food tax is tried in a state and is successful, it could cause a domino affect and quickly become a nationwide tax. The revenue pulled in by the tax could even stand to help kids get better, more nutritious school lunches if both ideas were to be put in place in coordination with each other. I agree that both ideas stand to help the nation as a whole, especially if both were to happen together.

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