Food Labeling In Schools Essay

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Is there a way to make food healthy and affordable? Currently, consumers are consuming food without the knowledge of what ingredients were injected into them. Some of these ingredients are proving to be safe, but not all. These unsafe chemicals aren't mentioned or displayed to the buyer in any way. The people have a right to know what substances and chemicals were put into their food. In order to make the food supply healthy and affordable, policymakers should enforce food labeling, provide nutritional education for pre-adolescence and ban certain types of unhealthy foods from schools.
One action that policymakers can take is enforcing food labeling. With this requirement, producers will be limited to what ingredients and chemicals they can mix …show more content…

When children between the ages of 10 and 12 walk into a food store, they don't know that they should go look for the healthier food, but they go towards the unhealthy aisles due to the lack of knowledge. On the other hand, children who would understand what type of additives are put into their food will choose more wisely. People may think that this education will have no use in influencing children at this age, but after I conducted a survey, the results show that children between the ages of 10 and 12 begin to make and choose their own food. In order to complete the survey, I attended two schools located in Sacramento, Wilson C. Riles and Spinelli Elementary. I interviewed 40 12-year-olds, 40 11-year-olds, and 35 10-year-olds with the same question, “ do you make and/or Choose your own food?” the data resulted in 65% of the students saying yes, they made their own food, and 35% saying no, someone made their food for them. With this data, it is clearly visible that this is the Asian children begin to realize what they want and choose to eat. Furthermore, this will give a positive influence on food choices for children between the ages of 10 and

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