' T Blame The Eater: Who's Responsible For Obesity?

Who is responsible for so many Americans dealing with obesity? While many Americans want the government to find who’s responsible for obesity and to inflict laws to control the obesity some feel it is each person’s responsibility. In Balko’s article What You Eat Is Your Business he pointed out that the government shouldn’t get between the American’s and their health, but hold the people to their own responsibilities on their health. He feels that having the government step in will cause people to be less responsible for their own health because they know they’re not paying for it. However, Zinczenko in Don’t Blame the Eater argues that fast food companies are the blame on Americans’ obesity. He feels that government should control these companies and make them inform the American people what there are going to eat or buy. Even though Balko and Zinczenko both address who’s responsible for Americans’ obesity, Balko provides a more convincing argument by …show more content…
It’s great showing statistics and point-of-view, but where did all the information come from? In the beginning of Don’t Blame the Eater where Zinczenko comments, “If ever there were a newspaper headline…Kids taking on McDonald’s this week, suing the company for making them fat” (462). Where did this comment come from, was it a headline from a published newspaper? There is no source proving that kids are suing McDonald’s. Another example of no sources is when Zinczenko wrote about how diabetes was mainly a genetic disorder in children before 1994. However, a five percent of children had diabetes caused by obesity or Type 2 diabetes (463). He doesn’t cite any sources where these statistics came from or show a connection between obesity and the food from fast food chains. It is important to have some facts that are creditable, so a writer does not misleaders his/her readers and so the readers can trust the