Summary Of What You Eat Is Your Business By Radley Balko

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America is one of the most obese countries in the world, and the reasons are obvious. Just look around you. Fast food chains on every block, unhealthy foods are much less expensive than the healthy foods we should be eating, more and more technology to make our lives easier and lazier, and high amounts of stress are all factors to weight gain in our country. What You Eat Is Your Business by Radley Balko, he argues about government interfering in private matters, such as making the choices for us in what we should or should not eat.
Spending millions of dollars will not stop people from eating what they want to. People will always find alternative ways that fits their choices. Government deciding for our choices is just not right even in the …show more content…

He also writes about music and culture in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives.
Balko is a former senior editor for Reason magazine, where his weekly column and investigative features were finalists for and won a number of journalism awards. His2009 investigative report on expert witness fraud in a Louisiana death penalty case won the Western Publication Association’s “Maggie Award” for reporting. In 2011, That Week named Balko a finalist for “Opinion Columnist of the Year," and the L.A. Press Club named him Journalist of the Year for small publications, as well as Journalist of the Year overall (Balko).
"What You Eat Is Your Business" by Radley Balko is an article in which he argues about how government interferes in what we eat. Radley Balko says, "President Bush earmarked $200 million in his budget for anti-obesity measures. State legislatures and school boards across the country have begun banning snacks and soda from school campus and vending machines" (Balko 296). None of these methods will stop people from eating what they want; it is just a waste of money. In the essay, he argues about how health has become public matter, rather than private. The reason of very high health cost in America is that "We are more likely go to the doctor at the first sign of cold, when we are not paying for it from our own pocket." In the

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