Fast Food Persuasive Speech

Competitive eating is not a Sport. As many of you have seen on TV or read about in magazine articles or even news papers, competitive eating is growing, becoming an ever so popular "sport." Can you classify eating as a sport? Being a Division one athlete, seeing and participating in gut wrenching hard work, I would hardly call gut stretching a sport. Sure you have seen the small Chinese guy on TV, even ESPN. You know the one who can eat fifty two hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes? With obesity being one of the United States biggest problems we are encouraging more and more people to eat by hosting this on TV. Not to give you the speech your mother gave you when you were seven and didn't finish all of your food on your plate. However, there really are millions of starving people in Africa and throughout the world.
Now we are so bored in the United States we result to watching other people eat? Don't stop there, let's call it a sport. Sorry I didn't know that when I went to a buffet and saw people who can barely fit
What I am saying is many of obese people sit there and feel sorry for themselves, doing nothing about it. I do on the other hand see people jogging, walking or going on diets. As a football player I see many "big boys" toughing it out and playing a real sport with what god gave them.
If you're not familiar with the I.F.O.E.C I'll tell you. It stands for the International Federation of Eating Competition. Seriously, does it need an acronym? Not only is this not a sport, I don't think it deserves a federation to add to the joke. I admit it; it has something different to it like extreme sports that are eye catching and has our youth in awe. I'm not sure if it's just my feelings from being an athlete to say this is not a sport. However I do wonder how other athletes feel when they hear that other people are calling eating a