Summary of “Fast Food and Personal Responsibility”
In “Fast Food and Personal Responsibility”, Ninons P. Malek (2003) argues that costumers shouldn’t sue restaurants for getting themselves fat and diseases from food they eat and people should be responsible for getting themselves fat. Malek mentions a popular lawsuit in which the claim was that the nutrition information was not available in these restaurants. Malek comments on it and says that a lot of restaurants have nutrition information available on websites and if not it is easy to get information from different sources. Malek relates this lawsuit to the one where smokers get sick and sue tobacco companies in which the smokers don’t hold responsibility for it. Malek refers to a book that states that such lawsuits would happen in future, and it was correctly predicted. Malek argues that students shouldn’t blame schools for not having healthy food when they actually do and if not students can make their own healthy food in their homes. While government begins charge on "fat", the customers still exist on the ground that consumers need them and pay for them to exist. Since smokers and fast food eaters lack responsibility of their actions, the government will setup more laws to control the community’s behavior; whether it’s prohibition for smokers or harsh rules regarding fast food and coffee. Finally, Malik assures that it’s a waste of money and personal responsibility to choose harmful things, but irritating about the consequences will close the road of privacy and freedom.
mments on it and says that a lot of restaurants have nutrition information available on websites and if not it is easy to get information from different sources. Malek relates this lawsuit to the one where smokers get sick and sue tobacco companies in which the smokers don’t hold responsibility for it. Malek refers to a book that states that such lawsuits would happen in future, and it...