Schools should sell fast food at lunches because it is their lives and they should get to choose what they want to eat ( Debate.org ). Choosing what one wants to eat is a right everyone deserves. Taking fast food out of schools won’t prevent obesity. Fast food is also a privilege the students must earn if the students cannot follow the rules this right can be revoked. Fast food should be sold in schools because fast food is not to blame for obesity, schools get sponsorship and do fundraisers from fast food, and allows students to choose what they want to eat. Students choosing what they want to eat is a right. Behavioral economists believe individuals suffer from persistent self-control problems (Galegroup.com).Self-control is possibly
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Despite the popularity of such firms as McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Subway—at which American consumers voluntarily spend over $100 billion annually—it has become fashionable to denounce these restaurants for a variety of sins: "They make people fat." "They hypnotize the kids." "They bribe the kids with toys." "They destroy our taste for more sophisticated foods." (Galegroup.com). Although many see the fast food industry as nothing but a place to become fat, it may not be more fattening than a sit-in restaurant or a home cooked meal. An estimated 20 percent of public schools sell branded fast food, mostly in high schools, where kids have more discretion to buy “a la carte,” rather than from the regular lunch program. (stopcorporateabuse.org). Advertisement in the face of high school students every day is not just for the business to profit but fundraise for the schools and help sponsor many school affairs. Between the 1970s and 1990s, daily fast food intake grew from an average of 60 calories to 200 calories (Galegroup.org). Although the calorie intake did increase it was not due to fast food alone, calories increased in just about every food or added to any food. Fast food is not to blame for obesity, but many other things are to
Despite the popularity of such firms as McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Subway—at which American consumers voluntarily spend over $100 billion annually—it has become fashionable to denounce these restaurants for a variety of sins: "They make people fat." "They hypnotize the kids." "They bribe the kids with toys." "They destroy our taste for more sophisticated foods." (Galegroup.com). Although many see the fast food industry as nothing but a place to become fat, it may not be more fattening than a sit-in restaurant or a home cooked meal. An estimated 20 percent of public schools sell branded fast food, mostly in high schools, where kids have more discretion to buy “a la carte,” rather than from the regular lunch program. (stopcorporateabuse.org). Advertisement in the face of high school students every day is not just for the business to profit but fundraise for the schools and help sponsor many school affairs. Between the 1970s and 1990s, daily fast food intake grew from an average of 60 calories to 200 calories (Galegroup.org). Although the calorie intake did increase it was not due to fast food alone, calories increased in just about every food or added to any food. Fast food is not to blame for obesity, but many other things are to