David Zinczenko's Essay 'What You Eat Is Your Problem'

Health is a personal mater. How can a person held someone else responsible for his or her health when that person is not living a healthy life style? Some people tend to blame others for their health issues and demand that the government or health insurance companies should pay for their medicine. Meanwhile some other people believe that everyone is responsible for his or her own health. According to David Zinczenko in his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater” the government should be responsible for our health. Also he believes that the government should be responsible for what we eat at schools, restaurants and even vending machines. In the other hand the writer of the essay “What You Eat Is Your Problem” Radley Balko does not support Zinczenko’s …show more content…
For example Zinczenko expresses that “Fast-food companies are marketing to children a product with proven health hazards and no warning labels”. In cases like this one the authorities should intervene and protect the consumer from hazardous products that are offered in restaurant, grocery stores and even super markets. Also the food distribution companies should step up and assume some of the responsibilities of informing the consumer not just for health issues but also for the moral obligations to protect others. Some fast food restaurants can get away by not labeling some of the food that they provide because the laws are not strict enough as Zinczenko explains in his essay “Prepared food aren’t covered under Food and Drug Administration labeling laws”. Witch gives the fast food restaurants less responsibility over the worries of its consumer’s health. However Zinczenko al so affirms that “Some fast-food purveyors will provide calorie information on request”. This is an action that shows us that some businesses are already assuming the responsibility to inform their