Diorama Make up assignment
1. Most people know that convenience food (CF) is loaded with salt, sugar and fat. They have heard that CF is a substantial factor in causing the obesity epidemic, the second leading cause of preventable death. When a consumer eats fast food from a restaurant like McDonald's or Burger King or buys convenience food in a store, who is responsible for the deterioration in the consumer's health caused by eating that food? Is it the consumer or is it the company that runs the restaurant?
2. How do the following efforts by food manufacturing industries and fast food chains affect people’s decisions to consume fast food or convince foods?
a. Advertising/Marketing
b. Nondisclosure (manufacturers often do not fully disclose the dangers of the foods they serve).
Ersatz Food (manufacturers manipulate the food to make it taste better)
c. Price
d. Availability
3.Imagine you are part of a congressional committee responsible for recommending what the government should do to fight the obesity epidemic and to regulate the fast food industry. What can be some of the possible solutions to the problem? Come up with at least three things that the government can do to regulate fast food industry. Create a poster that promotes those particular efforts - Make sure that the items in question two are covered in your poster.
Diorama Make up assignment
1. Most people know that convenience food (CF) is loaded with salt, sugar and fat. They have heard that CF is a substantial factor in causing the obesity epidemic, the second leading cause of preventable death. When a consumer eats fast food from a restaurant like McDonald's or Burger King or buys convenience food in a store, who is responsible for the deterioration in the consumer's health caused by eating that food? Is it the consumer or is it the company that runs the restaurant?
2. How do the following efforts by food manufacturing industries and fast food chains affect people’s decisions to consume fast food or convince foods?
e. Advertising/Marketing
f. Nondisclosure (manufacturers often do not fully disclose the dangers of the foods they serve).
Ersatz Food (manufacturers manipulate the food to make it taste better)
g. Price
h. Availability
3.Imagine you are part of a congressional committee responsible for recommending what the government should do to fight the obesity epidemic and to regulate the fast food industry. What can be some of the possible solutions to the problem? Come up with a at least three things that the government can do to regulate fast food industry. Create a mini poster that promotes those particular efforts.