Essay On Government Intervention

The issue of obesity is becoming worse in America, and there are many different opinions about how to solve this situation. One of the most arguable opinion is about government intervention. Experts who suggest government intervention focus on the epidemic of obesity and unethical ploys of the food companies such as indeterminate modifiers. They think the government should intervene to protect people. However, other experts who disagree claim obesity is a personal problem. They also warn about the ineffectiveness of regulating unhealthy foods. Although some experts say that the government intervention is not a good solution to obesity problems, the government should consider intervening, because counterbalances for the prices between healthy and unhealthy foods are needed, and because of the poorly-regulated unethical ploys that customers are unaware of. The counterbalances for the prices between healthy and unhealthy foods are necessary to solve this health issues related with obesity. Unhealthy foods, like fast-foods, are cheap and easy meals to the customers. However, healthy foods, like well-being foods, are expensive and inconvenient which is hard to attract
The names and labels of products are selected using profit-motivated strategies and are misleading about the quality of their product. In “What’s Natural about Our Natural Product?”, Sarah Federman, who works at the Institute for Health and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco explains about the indeterminate modifier-one of the most common advertisement methods that companies employ. She says, “’Natural’ serves as a meaningless label, a deceptive marketing tool, or means contains natural critters and natural toxins that may make you sick” (Federman 474). The government should regulate advertisements that confuse the customers to verify whether the food is healthy or unhealthy by