Unhealthy Food Products

Alice Brown, a nutritionist, claims that the way we eat influences our behavior and our mental health. According to her, the more we eat unhealthy food, such as white bread and sweet desserts, the more we become violent and impatient. The question is, whether or not food manufactures should be held responsible for the unhealthy food they produce.

I do not think that the manufactures should be held responsible for producing unhealthy food, because it is unreasonable to prevent them from producing it. Unhealthy food is purchased by an enormous amount of consumers, and preventing manufactures from selling it is sure to cause a great damage to their profits and harm the world's economy.

Moreover, people have the right to choose what they eat. I believe that the people, who choose to eat unhealthy food, are more to blame than the manufactures that produce it. Nowadays, there is a very wide variety of food products, and there should not be anything to stop consumers from purchasing the healthier brands. Therefore, if they choose to eat the less healthy food, it is the consumers’ choice, and they should be the ones to take responsibility for the consequences.

To conclude, I believe that blaming the food manufactures for the damage their unhealthy food causes is unfair, when the consumers are the ones who choose to buy it. I think that the consumers should be more health-conscious, and wise enough to choose their food properly.

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Daphna

4 Ha'avoda Street
Holon

17 September,2009

Haaretz Newspaper
27 Eilat Street
Tel Aviv, Israel.

Dear Editor,

Concerning the article "The Ideology is Dead, Long Live The Deal!", published on April 14, reporting that the members of kibbutz Shefayim have voted to privatize the kibbutz, I would like to state that I strongly oppose that action. I see this as a rude abandonment of ideals.

That is because by privatizing the Kibbutz, the children that were raised in there and educated by the principles and values of a collective settlement get a mixed message. On the one hand, they have been educated to certain values of a kibbutz, and on the other hand, those values are being breached by the kibbutz itself. This might cause the children to become very insecure about their own beliefs in the future.

Moreover, when a kibbutz, a facility in which the values and ideals are so basic and important, decides to abandon it’s ideals for financial benefits, it says a lot about nowadays’ society. In the past, people were ready to die for their ideals, but nowadays, it seems like ideology does not mean much. I think that this phenomenon of abandoning ideologies that easily is very sad. It causes our life(lives) to be much less meaningful.

I, personally, do not approve of the socialistic ideology on which the Kibbutzim are based on. I do, however, approve of sticking to one’s ideals. Therefore, I believe that breaching kibbutz Shfayim’s ideology is wrong and hope that other strong ideals won’t be breached as well.

Yours truly,

Amir Zloter.

Excellent.

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Daphna