...2015 Food for Thought Children these days are used to their parents making decisions for them—decisions they might not be too happy about. Now imagine this: their parents don’t have any control over their decision, but instead the government is telling them what they can and cannot do. This is becoming more and more of a problem recently with the regulation of children’s school lunches. The government is intervening too much, and they overstepping the boundaries in the lives of this country’s citizens. What people choose to do with their money should be their responsibility. The government needs to take a giant step back when it comes to something everyone enjoys and is a big part of everyday life: food....
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...companies should be looking out for the benefit of society rather than their own profits. If companies keep including such high amounts of sodium in their products the health of society and their consumers suffers, all so these companies can make more money. 2) I think that the ethical frameworks that should guide companies when it comes to sodium content are utilitarianism and individualism. Practicing utilitarianism when considering sodium would be seeing that too much sodium would not be maximizing the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people. Practicing individualism would be valuing that people have personal goals and values when it comes to health, and that things lower in sodium would be the better, more healthy choice. With both individualism and utilitarianism, the minority seems to suffer. People who don’t have as much money to make healthier choices suffer. It seems that processed food, high in sodium is cheaper because it lasts a lot longer. Therefore, lower income individuals and families aren’t left with as many (healthy) choices when shopping for food. 3) In my opinion, the legal aspects of sodium content in foods would be the FDA reexamining how much salt should be allowed in foods. Since they are finding high sodium intake to be a leading cause of all different health issues, legal aspects would be an issue. For example, if school lunches were to be high in sodium and kids started getting sick and having health issues, the government (who...
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...famines. Their governments fail to provide nutrient foods in needed quantities. The government of the United States of America is one of the top countries of providing food. Through this the government has created a number of regulations and restrictions to food. One is the Meat Inspection Act protecting the consumer from necessary disease or the Drug and Food Act to which it requires products to be labeled with specific ingredients. Most would agree that the government has done well to insure to health for the citizens, but is it appropriate for the government to regulate what students eat in school? America does suffer from a food related problem but it is not famine, but instead it is obesity. And the best way to tackle obesity is where it begins, in early childhood, through government regulation. The government should have a say in school diets to decrease the obesity rate, provide better health to students, and increase physical activity....
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...The push to implement one of the country’s most comprehensive competitive food bills came about because in 2001-2002 over 25 percent of the students in the Oregon school system were overweight. Childhood obesity is an epidemic in America as children consume more foods that are high in calories and sugars. In many cases these foods do not provide a significant amount of the child’s daily required nutrients. Therefore, not only in the food unhealthy, it is full of empty calories. Another reason behind the rise in obesity is the increasingly sedentary lifestyles that many children engage in. Childhood obesity can cause several health issues including, (1) high cholesterol and blood pressure which increases the risk for heart...
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...Should changes be made to the regulations for foods, served in public schools? Introduction Regulations for foods, served in public schools are a matter of great concern as it is essential for the purpose of creating a healthier lifestyle for children studying in public schools. The government has supported several children through the free education and free food program. But the quality of this food is not at par with the standard of the food quality approved by nutritionists so it needs to be changes. The foods do not contain fresh fruits, green vegetables, pulses or right amount of any nutrition filled foods so it is required to change the menu as differently as it can be so that proper nutrition can be given. This is not right since it can result in several health issues and so it is crucial that there be a change in the regulations for food served in public schools. Thesis Statement: Food leads to healthy mind and body, healthy mind and body leads to education, Education leads to development. Which means ultimately a healthy food can lead to development. So it is very important to eat well and hence change in regulations is essential. History and status of the issue The program of free education in public schools has been there for quite a long time and the pressure on these schools is significantly growing since the number of children entering and enrolling the public schools is significantly growing. All of this results in...
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...Obesity has slowly become a problem in the United States along with other countries across the world. The average weight of Americans has increased thirty pounds in just forty years. If the government does not step in and take control of this situation then who will? According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average male stands tall at five feet eight inches while weighing in at 195.5 pounds. The CDC listed female’s average height as five feet three inches weighing in at 166.2 pounds. Many people believe governments have no right to control what people eat at restaurants, however if governments do not step in to help limit the calorie count on foods in restaurants then who knows how many pounds the average will...
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...Food Education My fourth year in high school, sitting down eating a sub in Subway. Looking for something to read, I look down at my napkin and read what calories I am ingesting for the certain type of sub I’m eating. Everything I ever eaten here is below 500 calories. This is what brought healthy food choices to my attention. I turn my phone on, and google search, “Deaths from obesity.” I found the website World Health Organization, and a statistic caught my eye, “Around 3.4 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese”(who.int). I had no idea someones diet can kill so many people, and I knew things needed to be changed. I admit, watching what I ingest was not my first priority as a child. Whenever we stopped by a fast food restaurant, I was not thinking how much work it would take to burn all the calories off. Big Macs; Whoppers, Orange Chicken from Panda Express, you name it I ate it. Not just the main course was unhealthy, the drinks and the sides were just as bad. It all added up to more than 1000 calorie meals, which my body could not handle. An average person only needs 2000 calories daily, these meals through off your digestive system. Yet besides, most of the meals had little to no basic nutrients I needed on a daily basis. Veggies and other healthy choices were not important to me. The result of my crazy diet was laziness, overweightness, and depression. I never fully recovered from it, I still eat unhealthy sometimes. But as I age, my diet...
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...RESEARCH TOPICS Abstinence programs Do they work? Advertising Should certain kinds of ads be banned in the interest of health/morality/annoyance – alcohol, cigarettes, prescription meds, etc…? Africa Why so many wars? What’s the solution? Airplane accidents Who is responsible? Should families of victims be entitled to compensation? Airport security Should the government use invasive pat-downs and body scans to ensure passenger safety or are there better methods? Al Qaida Has U.S. policy actually spread terrorism rather than contain it? Will it get better or worse? Why and how? Alcohol Should the U.S. lower the drinking age to 18? Animal rights Should it be illegal to use animals for sports and entertainment? Arming pilots Good idea? Art A few years ago, an artist was criticized for depicting the Virgin Mary with elephant dung. When is art not really art? Athletes in high schools Should shoe companies be able to give away free shoes and equipment to high school athletes? Beauty contests Do they serve any purpose in society? Bridges, roads, waterways Why the government gets a bad report card on America’s infrastructure. Bullying laws Should the state or federal government put laws into place to prevent bullying? Cell phones How have they changed us socially? Censorship Should parents censor textbooks and other literature for children in schools? Cheap labor U.S. companies that move factories to undeveloped nations barely pay employees enough to...
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...States are Preventing it in Schools Willian Lessa Ribeiro American English and Culture Program Arizona State University July 2014 This paper analyzes and compares the Scholar Feeding Programs which aim to prevent childhood obesity in the United States, and in Brazil. By comparing their two different programs, it’s possible to identify some of the causes of the recent changes in the epidemiological profile of the children. The study include comparison between policies for nutritional education, food sales and diseases prevention. For this research it was used data comparison as research strategy. This data was collected from the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the American Centro for Diseases Control (CDC). Currently, research shows that an epidemiological change is happening in the nutritional status of the population. Previously malnutrition was predominant, now obesity is taking its place. There are several factors leading to these changes, like inadequate food intake with the predominance of snacks and junk food. However, the most important factor is the changes in the feeding in the first five years of age, which strongly influence if someone will or will not become an obese adult. Ensuring that children receive adequate nutrition, Brazil and the United States established rules in the case of school meals. Forming healthy dietary practices through actions of nutritional education contributes to educational development and improves school performance. However, The...
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...ounces or more. The only negative aspect to this is an individual could purchase multiple drinks to compensate for the loss amount. On the other hand, the alternative to this would be that administrates could focus more towards educational programs to encourage individuals to make healthier choices. Such as, making school lunches healthier, starting anti-obesity campaigns, and having people have a better understanding that a sixty-four ounce of Coca-Cola contains 780 calories. The negative aspect of anti-obesity campaigns is that some make kids very self-conscious about themselves. For example, one anti-obesity campaign states, “He has his father’s eyes, his laugh and even his diabetes”. Another one states, “Chubby kids may not outlive their parents”. In the article Letters of Response by Gary Taustine and Brian Elbel, Gary and Elbel have two different views on food regulations. Gary believes that the government has no authority what so ever to go from promoting a healthier lifestyle to being forced to eat healthy. Gary also believes that Mayor Bloomberg has been stripping away their freedoms for the past eleven years while in office. He claims that if they let him regulate all portion controls within New York City without a fight, then they do not deserve whatever freedom they have left. On the other hand, Elbel believes that if Mayor Bloomberg restricts the sales of all large beverages such as changing the food environment, it would be more effective that an educational based approach...
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...Running Head: IN NEED OF REFORM The Meat Processing Industry: In Need of Reform Taylor Purucker Niles High School The Meat Processing Industry: In Need of Reform Every day, animals are sent to slaughterhouses to be processed. Packaged meats are shipped from slaughterhouses to various supermarkets, where consumers purchase it fresh, or frozen. Buyers cannot tell whether or not the meat its safe to eat; they rely on US Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations. However, Sustainable Table says in their forum, Food Safety, “...76 million Americans suffer from food poisoning each year, causing 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths” (2009). Interests raise questions whether or not the USDA regulations are strictly enforced. It seems hard to believe since contaminated meat is the main cause for food-born illnesses. The recurrence of sanitary violations isn't the only dilemma; worker safety and animal health is also a problem. Workers are injured during the rapid process of processing animals; slaughterhouses process more animals an hour because of new technology. Animal's health becomes very poor after beatings and lack of nutrition. Robert Longley expresses in his report, USDA Weak in Enforcing Slaughterhouse Rules: GAO on About.com that, “GAO reported that a study of reports of actual cases of noncompliance at slaughter plants revealed 'several' incidents in which inspectors failed to stop plant operations as required by...
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...Introduction: The United States has been known as the “nation of immigrants”, but only legal immigrants really help our country to thrive. Most illegal immigrants come to America for good reasons, to live the “American Dream” and help their families, but most don’t know that they are putting the U.S. in greater debt and putting all of its citizens in danger. “More than 10 million undocumented aliens currently reside in the U.S., and that population is growing by 700,000 per year.” Illegal immigrants put our security at risk, raise the costs for the US, and raise crime rates; they fill up prisons, get free education, and get free emergency medical services, even though they are not citizens. Background: Most claims-makers who believe that illegal immigration is good for the country are economists looking at the economic factor of having illegal immigrants. These economists agree, “that the U.S. economy is larger, and growing faster, due to the supply of illegal immigrants, and that most Americans with higher job skills are better off for their presence” and that without them the country’s workforce would decline a few percentages. They want to prove that it is good that we have illegal immigrants in our country and that they are helping our economy, but that is only a small aspect of how they effect the United States. The fact is that “About 85.5 of every 100 new workers are new immigrants in this decade” and “we've ignored that illegal immigration has put a lot of young...
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...Chapter 3 Ap Government Devolution revolution – The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states. Federalism – Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments, called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals. Dual federalism (layer cake federalism) – Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government, leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Court serves as the umpire between the national government and the states in disputes over which level of government has responsibility for a particular activity. Cooperative federalism – Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government. Marble cake federalism – Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs, rather than a layer cake, or dual federalism, with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government. Competitive federalism – Views the national government, 50 states, and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages...
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...Power of Government 3. Strengthening the Union B. The Powers of the Nation 1. Enumerated Powers 2. Implied Powers C. The Powers of the States II. Federalism in Historical Perspective A. An Indestructible Union (1789–1865) 1. The Nationalist View: McCulloch v. Maryland 2. The States’ Rights View: The Dred Scott Decision B. Dual Federalism and Laissez-Faire Capitalism (1865–1937) 1. The Fourteenth Amendment and State Discretion 2. Judicial Protection of Business 3. National Authority Prevails C. Toward National Citizenship III. Federalism Today A. Interdependency and Intergovernmental Relations B. Government Revenues and Intergovernmental Relations 1. Fiscal Federalism 2. Categorical and Block Grants C. Devolution 1. The Republican Revolution 2. Devolution, Judicial Style IV. The Public’s Influence: Setting the Boundaries of Federal-State Power Chapter Summary The foremost characteristic of the American political system is its division of authority between a national government and the states. The first U.S. government, established...
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...Government interventions and their effects on economic inequality Maastricht University | | | | School of Business & Economics | | | | Place & date: | 18th November 2014 | | Name, initials: | Große Entrup, Carina | | ID number: | I6096321 | | Study: | International Business | | Course code: | ebc1009 | | Group number: | 46 | | Tutor name: | Emre Ergin | | Writing tutor name: | Kirsty Donald | | Writing assignment: | Main Paper (Task 10) | | number of words: | 1990 | | carina.grosseentrup@maastrichtuniversity.nl Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Government intervention 3. Government intervention to reduce income inequality 3.1 In-kind transfers 3.2 Minimum wage 3.2.1 Effects of minimum wage on labour market 3.3 Income tax 4. Conclusion 1. Introduction Although income grew by almost three percent per year for all income classes in the period from 1950 to 1980, the ones that were mostly blessed with the highest income growth were the top earners (McDowell, 2012). Income can differ enormously between the different classes of a society and the range between the top earners and those at the bottom of the society becomes larger and larger. Income inequality is a wide discussed topic by all social classes. The well earning upper-class, people who have to struggle with a minimum living wage and the shrinking middle-class, which has to worry most about its future living situation, are affected...
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