Posted: April 5th, 2015

junk food tax

junk food tax

Order Description

Research Paper
Taking the articles you have found while working on your annotated bibliography, you will now move on to the research paper. We will work on this in stages as described below.
1. The Outline. Before just writing out the paper, an outline will help you organize your main points and supporting details.
2. The Body. Instead of starting at the beginning, better known as the introduction, we will write the body of the paper.
3. The Thesis Statement. Once the body of the paper is written, it’ll be much easier to write the thesis statement, as you’ll already know exactly what you’re including in the paper.
4. The Introduction and Conclusion. Say no more.
NOTE BENE! You will still need to have a Works Cited Page as part of this paper. This is a separate project from the Annotated Bibliography.
The purpose of this paper will be to report and synthesize the information you have found in a cohesive way. What is your claim? What are your reasons behind your claim? What evidence do you have?
This paper will likely end up being anywhere from 10-15 pages long. If you feel like you need more resources than in your annotated bibliography because there are holes in the information you have that you feel need to be covered, then by all means, go ahead and find more. But please document all of your sources, both within the text and in the works cited page.

This article is written by Sophie Borland, a British journalist of the Daily Mail. She reveals that increasing sugar tax on junk food and soft drinks may reduce the average daily calorie level of the society. Changing the public’s poor diet can prevent people from getting fatter. Due to the secretly changing size of clothing manufacturers, she worries that we have normalized being overweight. The author agrees that eating junk food and drinking soft drinks are harmful for human being. This article is for everyone to read and it supports the government to add junk food tax to let citizens eat healthier.

Borland Sophie. “Slap a Sugar Tax on Fizzy Drinks and Junk Food: Shock Call by Chief Medical Officer.” Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 05 Mar. 2014. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

This article is presented by Canada Newswire. Canada Newswire is a Canadian-based commercial news release service. The Canada Newswire claims that the average healthy level will incredible improve if the government turns the healthiest food into the most affordable one. In other words the author also agrees to add junk food tax to prevent society from obesity. The article is easy to read and it supports the junk food tax.

Doug Weir. “Ontario’s Doctors: Junk Food Tax Still Makes Sense.” Ontario Medical Association. Canada Newswire, 20 Feb. 2013. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

This article is written by Andrew Entzminger, a journalist of The Washington Times. In the article he presents that several states’ government has approved various laws such as increase the tax on soft drinks to prevent citizens from high-sugared and low-nutrition food and drinks. He also mentions in his article that there are different sounds, such as Bill Ahern, a spokesman for the Tax Foundation, states that the preventative taxes “didn’t work on tobacco.” And actually low-income smokers consume more tobacco than higher-income smokers. But CSPI thinks that “lower-income adults drink more soft drinks than higher-income adults, thus would be affected disproportionately by a soft-drink tax.” The author did not show a distinct bias about the junk food tax in the article; he provides evidences for both pros and cons.
Entzminger Andrew. “Food, Drink Makers Push Back at Soda Taxes, Junk-food Curbs.” Washington Times. The Washington Times, 14 Oct. 2010. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

This article is written by Dorothy Carey, a journalist of Australian Food News. In the article, Carey provides several statistics about what does the society think about adding levy on junk food, such as “results from VicHealth research conducted in 2009 showed 83 percent of the population support a levy on alcohol and junk food advertising.” Alcohol and junk food has caused huge problem and gained large attention in the Australian society. The author did not state his own opinion in the article, but it seems like he also agrees adding levy on junk food. This article is published mainly for the Australian citizens to read, and the contents and statistics provide in the article may give readers a basic idea about how harmful junk food is.

Dorothy Carey. “Public Support for Alcohol and Junk Food Levy.” Australian Food News. Australian Food News, 15 Aug. 2010. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

This article is written by Rogers Lois, an international commentator on health science and social policy issues. Obesity has taken over from smoking and became the biggest health challenge in the twenty-first century. Whether consumption of junk food can be decrease by increasing price becomes a big question. In the article, Rogers claims that “there is no doubt we have a major epidemic on our hands with obesity, and unless we find some ways of tackling it, we are going to see young obese people dying before their parents.” The article is very easy to read and it supports the junk food tax.

Lois Rogers. “European Heart Journal.” Is a Tax on Junk Food Moving a Step Closer? European Heart Journal, 01 Aug. 2011. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

This article is written by Gagnon Louise, a faculty of Nursing school of Université de Montréal. In the article, the author says that government have already add “sin” taxes for cigarettes, and junk food does no less damage than cigarettes. Therefore, the same taxes should also be placed on junk food to control it. Additionally, the author points out that some people think the reason why people choose to eat junk food instead of healthy food is the price of junk food is cheaper. So adding taxes on junk food may help people make eat healthier. This article has same theme with other articles and the article is very easy to read. The author supports junk food tax.

Louise Gagnon. “Canadian Medical Association.” “Sin” Tax Proposed for Junk Food. Canadian Medical Association, 24 June 2003. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

This article is written by Michael F. Jacobson, a Ph.D., a co-founder and executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). CSPI is a nonprofit health advocacy organization which supported largely by the 900,000 subscribers to its Nutrition Action Healthletter. In the article, the author compared how much we spend on junk food and how much we spend to learn how to cure cancer. The comparison shows we spend enormous amount of money on junk food and little money on cancer cures. Michael also mentions how junk food cause people to be unhealthy or sick. In the end the author advocates states to place junk food tax. The passage has the same theme as others but the author support the junk food tax stronger than other authors. Additionally this article is very easy to understand as well.

Jacobson Michael F. “Tax Junk Foods.” Nutrition Action Health Letter. Center for Science in the Public Interest, 15 Dec. 2000. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

This article  is written by Williams Stephen, an editor of Newsweek. In the article, Williams says there are 99% of kids don’t have a balance diet and explains how junk food destroy kids’ health. Also he mentions Brownell’s idea of having a junk food tax to promote healthy diet. This article has the same theme as others and the author is neutral but somehow supportive to the junk food tax.

Stephen Williams. “A Tax on Junk Food?” Newsweek. Newsweek, 22 Sep. 1997. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

This article is written by James Clear, who describe himself as an entrepreneur, a weightlifter, and a travel photographer who owns a homepage. In the article James provides several reasons why people crave to junk food: dynamic contrast, salivary response, rapid food meltdown and vanishing caloric density, sensory specific response, calorie density, memories of past eating experiences. After that he gives three tips to “kick the junk food habit and eat healthy”, including avoid buying junk food, eat vary, and find a better way to deal with your stress. This article tells reasons why junk food attracts people well, also gives advice about how to avoid junk food and eat healthy. The article is about junk food but not junk food tax, its related to the junk food tax topic, but does not have a direct attitude to the theme. This article is very easy to read, and it shows how harmful junk food is to human being.

Clear James. “What Happens to Your Brain When You Eat Junk Food (And Why We Crave It).” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 15 Nov. 2013. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

The article is written by William Neuman. William is a food industry reporter of the New York Times. In the article William reports how harmful soft drink is especially to young adults. If in the end America pass the Sugar tax law, sugary beverages tax can bring the cost of a two-liter bottle of soda from $1.53 to $2.00. As a reporter, William talks about soft drinks tax from an objective prospection. The article is easy to read and the author is neutral to sugary beverages / junk food tax.

William Neuman. “Should The Government Tax Your Coke?” The New York Times Upfront. The New York Times, 23 Nov. 2009. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.