Statistics have been keen to show that the issue of obesity has become more of an epidemic and due to the various complications that come about when government fails to regulate food industry. There is a dire need for the government to regulate the food industry, to avoid problems associated with the epidemic that arises due to lack of control.
Regulation of food would help to solve some problems that some foods bring to the society. For one, there is the issue of obesity. To start with, obesity causes an estimated 30,000 deaths every year. It is also evident that the problem does not occur to grown-ups only but also, children as little as three years have also been faced by the epidemic.
Being obese also brings so many problems to the people in the society. For one, it results to diseases that cause death amongst the people. Diabetes is one of the diseases that is caused by obesity. Children at a young age also become victims of the disease, as they face the likelihood of being affected by type II diabetes.
Statistics have also shown that per every year, the government is increasing the budget of diabetic patients as more and more of them are increasing. The cost is also increasing when it comes to the deaths that are reported every year due to the epidemic. The cost is not only a financial one but it is also a social one as the society is losing a big number of workers every year due to this epidemic.
The government also needs to control the food business so as to avoid any contamination of food that is meant for public consumption. The recent scare of food contamination can only be dealt with when the government is keen on ensuring that the food business is well controlled.
To avoid contamination the government needs to set up standards that ensure that the foods that are meant for human, meet a certain standard that is not likely to cause any harm to the health of the consumer. Not only does the government need to set up the right standard, but also the responsibility of enforcing it follows under them.
As a way of ensuring that organizations do not suffer the redundancy cost, the government may feel the need to regulate the food business. The government is able to reduce the cost that some organizations may incur, by ensuring that each and every organization observes a certain set of standard.
When every organization has a defined standard, it is usually cheaper for other organizations, since there is no fear that certain products that they get do not meet their standards. In turn, they do not need to hire experts to check the standards.
The call for the government to control the food industry raises various feelings among the interested parties. There are those who feel that the already set rules about food are already adequate and that there is no need to have others, since it might increase the cost of production and in turn, make the products expensive.
However, there are those who feel that the various risks that come with lack of control for the food industries are so much and need to be reduced. Either way, it is important for the government to have adequate control of food industry, to ensure that the health of the citizens is not compromised. It is also important to ensure that imports are adequately controlled to avoid any contamination.