Summary Of Rethinking Our Right To Dangerous Behaviors By Mark Bittman

In Rethinking Our ‘Rights’ to Dangerous Behaviors, Mark Bittman tries to bring attention to unseen or disregarded dangers to the average citizen about the often corrupt ways of Big Business. People often overlook the process of how a product reaches their hands. Most often people only care that they have something to consume, food, drink, medicines or cigarettes, or a product, cars or guns, to show off to friends and neighbors. “But Freudenberg details how six industries — food and beverage, tobacco, alcohol, firearms, pharmaceutical and automotive — use pretty much the same playbook to defend the sales of health-threatening products. This playbook, largely developed by the tobacco industry, disregards human health and poses greater threats to our existence than any communicable disease you can name.” There are many things that can hurt us, but we will never know until it’s too late.
You can say he is bias against Big Business, but in reality, he is against their recklessness and manipulating nature, which is understandable. “All of these industries work hard to defend our “right” — to smoke, feed our children junk, carry handguns and so on — as matters of choice, freedom and responsibility. Their unified line is that anything that restricts those “rights” is un-American.” Corporations spend millions on advertisements to make our children chose products that are harmful, fast food and junk food. Televisions romanticizes the beautiful of McDonald’s fast food or the processed sugary treats and drinks that liter our grocery stores. We generally accept that this stuff is bad for us but the crowds have not ceased to entertain all these harmful