8/28/09 pg. 38 number dos

In David Zinczenko's article "Don't Blame the Eater" he adresses the limited alternatives available to cheap and convienant fast food resturaunts. Zinczenko claims, "Drive down any thoroughfare in America, and I guarantee you'll see one of our country's more than 13,000 McDonald's restaurants. Now, Drive back up the block and try to find someplace to buy a grapefruit." He goes on to insist that fast food restaurants are the only available options for teens to get an affordable meal. There is a statistic that contradicts his statements, in 2004 there were 85,000 grocery stores in the United States. Are you not able to buy a grapefruit at a grocery store?


In David Zinczenko's article "Don't Blame the Eater" he provides evidence that type two diabetes, the type caused from being overweight, in children has risen 20 percent since 1994. Zinczenko makes a point that when you go to one of America's 13,000 plus McDonalds there is no nutritional information being displayed or health risk warnings anywhere to be seen. Some fast food resturaunts supply nutritional information if asked but do teens and children, really understand how to interpret that? It doesn't help that commercials and advertising are becoming more and more directed towards children and teens. This brings up the issue of lawsuits against the fast food industry addressed in the article. Children suing McDonalds for making them obese is like suing alcohol industrys for making you an alcoholic. Zinczenko agrees in his writings something else must be done.

The two summaries from the same article provide different information. Summary one is about dissagreeing with the authors view of not having alternatives to fast food. If you dissagreed on the authors view on the alternatives and wanted to write an essay addressing that issue then you obviously wouldnt write the beginning summary, the "they say", about other things in the article that wasnt pertaining to the alternatives to fast food situation. You wouldn't write about the law suits, diabetes rates rising, or the lack of nutritional information displayed because that is off topic and doesn't help support your argument. Summary two was written from a stand point in which you believe the fast food industry is at fault for Americas obese children and teens. In this summary you would include facts from David's article which supported that America is overweight in fault of the fast food resteraunts.