People may say that they are obligated to do something that they may not want to do. An example of this can when someone may say that they don’t want to go to work but they have to go. People do not have to go to work if they do not want to go but we all go we would not have any income in order to survive. This is similar to the obesity issue. People feel like they are obligated to eat out all the time because of various issues. Some issues are explained in the essay “Don’t Blame the Eater,” by David Zinczenko asserts that children are suing big corporate companies such as McDonald's because it is making them fat. He states that it is an issue worth sympathizing with. In this essay, he draws from his past experiences as he grew up stating …show more content…
The cost of a lettuce $1.39 ham $5.99, tomato 2 for $1.00, and avocado 2 for $1.00 adding up to $9.38 which is close to the same price of a meal at a fast food restaurant, averaging at almost $7.00. At first, the $9.38 may seem like a lot, but you will still have enough produce left over to make another salad for a later time instead of investing $7.00 for a single meal. We as consumers hold the ability to decide what we want to buy. No one is forcing us to pick what we put into our bodies, it is important to understand that although the price of health food is expensive, we can still plan accordingly to what we can afford without going over their …show more content…
People don’t have to become dependent on fast food restaurants just because it is easy to buy. In the article by Haygood, he writes, “He could not live without the large lunch boxes of sweets he used to load up on at the Wal-Mart. The kids around here, they’ll eat cornbread and taters for lunch. They’ll get a 20-piece chicken meal.” What he is saying is that his kids are eating these lunch boxes filled with processes food and other processed food for their lunch. Children and parents don’t have to depend on these food options. Parents could make a meal plan to give their children so they can eat healthier. Parents are busy and there are times when they simply do not have time to cook for their children, let alone make them a lunch to take to school but this still is not excusable. I grew up in a single-parent home and she worked 3 jobs, but she was still able to make us a home cooked meal. Since my mom had to work so hard she found a way to keep us from eating at a fast food restaurant. In order to do this, my mother would make a week’s worth of meals and have them ready for us to heat up when she got off of work. It is important to understand that although there is a lot of fast food restaurants available to dine-in there are other options one can take. It is comprehensible that parents do get tired from a long day’s work, but it does not mean that it is acceptable for