The Role Of Obesity In America

There is a constant global epidemic growing everyday resulting in many deaths. Obesity spreads like a wildfire in this day and age because of the advances humans have made in the meat and food production process. People can now get food this faster than ever before, but of course, this comes with a heavy consequence. The high demands of food have led to the production of very unhealthy and almost artificially made food in order to make money by spending less. In result, the food industries have a lot of responsibility for playing a key role in not only America but the whole world’s obesity epidemic. Although it is the consumer's choice on where to eat, it is hard to go somewhere else when fast food restaurants can be seen almost in every …show more content…
People might ask themselves, what is it that keeps attracting people to these fast food chains? Many parents also choose to bring their kids there applying bad eating habits,resulting in the frequent return of the consumer. For example, big industries purposely aim their advertising to kids, schools help support as well when they promote, “fast food outlets increasing ink contracts with schools and gear advertising to kids” (“super-size Americans”). By big industries targeting the youth group of this society they create long term buyers and making the efforts to stop these organizations into what seems an impossible task. It causes a chain reaction because now those kids are educated on false facts that fast food has the best intentions for their consumers and they bring that home where their parents allow them to eat these foods. Many people do not know what they really eat, yet they have a good idea of what it is, but they blindly eat foods like, “an over-salted slab of gray beef with high-fructose corn syrup and a cheese product is disgusting, but some people really like the Quarter Pounder with cheese” (“Big Fat America”). Big food industries allow little to nothing viewable to the public eye what the consumers believe they eat is nothing close to the real deal, and it is sold worldwide. Not only is everything highly confidential, but the information they do let out is modified to fit the needs of what brings in the most money. They sometimes falsely mark their packages by, “manufacturers often either "generously" package more food than the stated net weight or make servings heavier than the stated serving size weight” (“11 Secrets”). They cannot even tell the truth when it comes to something as simple as this, let alone their meat producing methods. People are lied to right to their faces, and no one is able to make a