{"id":231,"date":"2017-07-02T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=231"},"modified":"2017-07-02T05:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T05:40:03","slug":"our-responsibility-as-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/our-responsibility-as-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Responsibility as Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We live in an<\/span>\"\"\u00a0era dominated by the marketing of big corporations.\u00a0 In no industry does this have a larger effect on our bodies\u2019 health than in the American food industry.\u00a0 There are many factors which contribute to public health but one of, if not the greatest factor, is the food we eat.\u00a0 As ou<\/span>r food system becomes more and more industrialized it become continually more dominated by larg<\/span>e corporations with nearly endless marketing budgets.\u00a0 These large corporations consider little the effect of their products on the health of the consumer and largely on the most effective way to sell mass amounts of their products, and maximizing their profits.\u00a0 Because of this it is the responsibility of the consumer to think critically about the types of foods that we are consuming and the impact they are having on our bodies and the environment.\u00a0 It\u2019s unfortunate that we cannot rely more on the social responsibility of large corporations or the regulation of our government, but this leaves us with one simple questions, how important is our health?\u00a0 I think the answer to this question is simple, the health of our bodies is of the utmost importance.\u00a0 If we cannot rely on the corporations or the government to market healthy, sustainable products, then it is our responsibility as consumers to seek out products and companies that provide these types of products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We live in an\u00a0era dominated by the marketing of big corporations.\u00a0 In no industry does this have a larger effect on our bodies\u2019 health than in the American food industry.\u00a0 There are many factors which contribute to public health but one of, if not the greatest factor, is the food we eat.\u00a0 As our food system becomes more and more… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66,67,65],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-health","tag-food","tag-health","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}