Regulation is a set of rules, made to control something. Tobacco
has regulation because it has a lot of scientific evidence that its consumption
poses serious risk for health, but what about things we called ‘garbage food’? Should fast food and some sweets that have huge amount of trans fat and sugar be control, too?
According to ‘Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners’, Consumers International (CI) and the World Obesity Federation
(WOF) stated that we should regulate food industry like we regulates tobacco,
such as advertising control and educating public, along with reducing the level
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In my opinion, I think that it is a very good idea. A lot of garbage food is consumed nowadays. Garbage food doesn't mean only fast food or something like this, but also the food that has high calories, often from fat, and has low mineral, vitamins, and protein we need to survive. Garbage food also has huge amount salt and sugar that can cause you your health when it is regularly consumed. Too much salt can cause high blood pressure, edema, and cardiovascular disease. On the other hand, too much sugar cause obesity, high cholesterol, and diabetes. All of this isn't good for our health at all.
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I really like your illustration, they look delicious, but today I do a lot comments so I will come back to read your post tomorrow. :)
ReplyDeleteYour mentioned about Southern Curries. I frequently eat this as my dinner because my mom is a Southerner and I trying to be more "Southern". My favorite one is "Gang Leuang" or Yellow Spicy Soup with Fish. I agree that this dish is heartier than Oily Fried Noddle.
ReplyDeleteAnd prison sentences for dealers who sell the deadly garbage food to innocent children?
ReplyDeleteI like this topic: it sounds controversial, and that's good - we need some discussion to sort out which side might be right and which side is almost certainly wrong.
Some of the comments people have left on the Law posts suggest that the writers think it's possible for opposite opinions on a controversial issue to both be true, and this seems to me the worst possible answer, and wrong with 100% certainty. Either Law is right or he is wrong: if he is right, then those of us who regularly eat meat are morally in the wrong. If we are right, he is wrong. We cannot both be right, although Law might want to modify his thesis to account for P's worries.
I am looking forward to the discussion on Petch's post here.
This reminds me that about 18 months ago, New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, passed a law to make large, sugary drinks, the sort served in McDonalds with their garbage food, illegal (Grynbaum, 2013). His reasoning was exactly the same as that in Petch's article and post: if something is harmful, that is a good, and good enough, reason to ban it.
ReplyDeleteThe New York State Supreme Court disagreed and stopped the law.
Who do you agree with: New York's mayor, or the judges? Why is the other side wrong?
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Grynbaum, M. M. (2013, March 11). Judge Blocks New York City’s Limits on Big Sugary Drinks. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/nyregion/judge-invalidates-bloombergs-soda-ban.html
Sometimes I care and sometimes I don't care that what I eat is bad for my health. When I'm stressed, comfort food usually calls me and drags my attention, "eat me eat me". That's hard to resist.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite restaurant puts many tablespoon of MSG in each dish. I know that it's not healthy but I still want to eat it because it's delicious.
If you want to regulate garbage food, you may consider put a caution or give information on the label. Some unhealthy food tastes good. It's not a good idea to ban unhealthy but delicious food.
Pueng, thank you for suggesting that helpful argument opposing bans on bad food, which reason we can now apply to a slightly different case.
DeleteIs it a good idea to ban unhealthy but highly desired and enjoyable things like drugs? (I'm expecting Pueng and those who agree with her to say that it is not a good idea to ban drugs just because they are unhealthy.)
It is not a good idea to ban drugs just because they are unhealthy. The main reason that drugs are made illegal is that consuming drug causes a person to lose self-control. Drug users may unconsciously harm surrounding people. I believe that regulators are more concern about peace in the society than the drug users' health.
DeleteThank you Pueng. I wonder if your classmates agree with these clear statements, and what then logically follows.
DeleteP Pueng’s idea seems right. It is logically to think in that way. However, the regulators still arrest drug’s users even though they don’t harm anyone. Perhaps, they might care about drug’s user health.
DeleteAnd since alcohol causes people to lose self control more than drugs such as heroin (most domestic abuse, for example, where men beat wives and children, involves alcohol), accepting Pueng's reason for making heroin and other drugs illegal means that alcohol must be more illegal: all those people drinking champagne and red wine with dinner should be in prison, and the makers of Singha beer and other popular forms of the drug alcohol should presumably be executed for the serious harm their products cause to society and innocent people.
DeleteBut if Ball's idea that health concern for the user is a good reason to make something illegal, the health harms of alcohol must also make that drug as illegal as yaa baa and other drugs.
Is there any good reason for discrimination in current Thai drug laws, or are those laws nothing better than blind prejudice that is irrational and immoral? Are current drug laws seriously unjust and in urgent need of reform?
I think Thai food which contained coconut milk is high cholesterol and it may be a health problem if we eat too much. Anyway, writing comment in your post makes me feel hungry right now because it's 11.05 PM!
ReplyDeleteI think Thai foods are more healthy than the garbage foods, because many Thais dishes use some ingredients that are good for our health, such as herbs which have various benefits, while the garbage foods don't have. They only contain a lot of fat, sugar and salt,which can increase the risk of any disease.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I still eat some garbage foods. They are delicious and easy to buy.
Ps. I planned to write about this news last night. Fortunately, I change my mind, so we don't use the same article !!
I think garbage foods are usually more delicious than healthy ones. Haha
ReplyDeleteGarbage food problem sounds interesting but how should we define this one is garbage or not. For example, if we think about the coconut milk curry, I believe that most people might not classify it as garbage food even though it contained a lot of fat. So I am not sure that how we define it.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, for your question, should we regulate some garbage food? In my perspective, I don’t agree with that because although we can control the food, we cannot control consumers. It still causes a problem. To sustainably solve the problem, the education is promising. I do agree with you that we need to educate people, especially children, on food awareness. I think that it will benefit people a lot because they not only stay healthy but they also save their money from health problem and junk food. By this reason, I support we should fix the problem at the beginning that occurred by consumer instead of seller which happens at the ending.
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