Minimal nutritious food that corporations are supplying American school cafeterias and vending machines raises a major ethical concern for the health of children. This suggests that the federal government does not support the position of having school children on healthy diets. Instead, they side with corporations marketing their products of limited or no nutritional value in schools. One asks where is the ethics in this approach? Children at school should have limited exposure to marketing campaigns that illustrate unhealthy eating habits. Furthermore, because they are only children it is clearly unethical to exploit their innocence. Is it not the government’s ethical duty to monitor the advertising and exposing of unhealthy food product to children? The federal government needs to enforce and regulate the type of advertising that corporations use to persuade children to purchase unhealthy food products.

Children that attend school and eat at their cafeteria must be given an alternative option in selecting healthier choices. Today, many of these entities are constrained to purchase their food from one supplier who are acting unethically in promoting unhealthy food choices. They are more interested in the profit they make rather than the well being of school children.

Citation: Smith, Jessica. “Commercial Alert vs. USDA: How one non-profit is fighting to eliminate junk food from America’s schools”. 6 December 2005. Web.15 September. 2011 <http://www.naturalnews.com/015407.html>

Picture: Espaillat, Jay. “New nutrition Assessment for children”. 2 September 2010. Web. 15 September. 2011. <http://kidfitspot.com/>.