SWA #10

I chose to analyzing and respond to Mark Bittman's "Bad Food? Tax It" because the entire time I was thinking about how he was going about the situation all wrong.

We Can Die if We Want Too: Why Taxation Isn’t the Answer.

Thesis: While it is widely agreed that hyper-proccessed and high sugar foods are an unnecessary health risk, it is an infringement on our constitutional rights to tax them.

 Point A: The Health Risks

            1. Obeisity

            2. Diabetes

            3. Heart Disease

Point B: Our Rights

            1. Constitutional Rights

            2. Prohibition

            3. Marijuana

Point C: Human Nature

1. Higher pricing will force the choice (even more so) between healthy and junk foods.

2. Natural Selection

3. People can’t change what they don’t understand. Educate them.

Point D: Change

            1. Programs to educate about healthy alternatives

2. Providing healthier alternative choices to school children, and making a food health class mandatory.

Conclusion:

            You can give a man a vegetable and he’ll eat it for a day, but if you teach him how to grow them he’ll eat them for a lifetime.