The Sources Consulted For This Essay Are Ann Cooper’S

The sources consulted for this essay are: Ann Cooper’s TED talk: â€Å"What’s wrong with School Lunches†, where she explains the issues on how America is feeding and educating their kids about food, Mark Bittman’s TED talk: â€Å"What’s wrong with what we eat†, in which he explains the western diet’s consequences on health and environment, and from the book â€Å"Food Matters†; Brian Wansink and Collin R. Payne’s: â€Å"The Joy of Cooking Too Much: 70 Years of Calorie Increases in Classic Recipes† where we see a chart that compares increasing serving calorie numbers on classic recipes through the years, Marian Nestle’s:â€Å"Eating Made Simple† where she takes a nutrition, as well as the diagram used for the U.S. Government’s Nutritional Guidelines. This essay†¦show more content†¦But companies don’t care to show it, as long as there is still people paying for their products, so they keep on making us believe that what we eat is not so bad for our health. This takes very strategic marketing and we need to learn how to analyze labels and really think if what we eat straight out of a package is better than a fruit or a salad. A good example of how society is getting misleading education on how to feed themselves is well explained by Cooper in her talk (1:12): â€Å"(†¦) the way the government commodifies food, the way the government oversees out food, the way the USDA puts food on kids’ plates that’s unhealthy, and allows unhealthy food into schools.† Cooper explains why health issues amongst young individuals are growing over the years, as well as mentioning in a very simple sentence who is responsible for this. Corporations that have the power to educate people and dictate what is allowed to offer at public schools have chosen not to. Children are growing up and thinking that the frozen, then fried or microwaved food they see at school is a normal and adequate meal. It can get hard to teach them this is not right when their parents and care takers are not educated in the matter either. This is why we see a