Illogical Campaigns Against Vending Machines

Vending machines are ingenious inventions that come in each(prenominal) sizes and shapes giving customized and quick services in efficient manner at a cheap cost. In recent times, there has been a compressed campaign to strike up tonic water vending machines out of schools in the US owing to the perceived problem of increment of fleshiness among many American children.Soda vending machines should be included in schools but in the teachers bum around beca recitation for them (teachers), are mature enough to make decisions well-nigh their health. Contained therein in this paper are arguments in favor of this proposition and misconception of the same by means of facts that are present and are hard to ignore.For starters, these vending machines generate a lot of income for student organizations. A survey released at Roosevelt showed that these machines raked in about $40,000 in a recent year. Elimination of the machines from schools may closure in the bankruptcy of student progra ms that depended on revenues from the vending machines.Closely related to this is the fact that these machines powerfulness be supplying less than par calories but this can not possibly eliminate obesity in the American society. Vending machines world power be a part of the problem, but their contribution is negligible because obesity problems start at home with unhealthy eating habits of living on fast foods only(prenominal).These campaigns are about patronizing students by parents and school establishment in their thinking that they know what is best for them and forgetting that these students can choose for themselves from a rich menu of drinks that is offered by these machines.These students are aware of the side effects that are associated with consumption of sodas and many parents think that the machines only sell drinks that kibosh over added artificial sugars. In these same machines, you get sugar allow diet sodas with no calories, bottled water, juices and even milk w hich are as touristed as any otherwise carbonated drink.Another baseless argument for inhibition vending machines in schools is to rid our schools of mercantile system claiming that this is detrimental to students learning. This is a rattling interesting argument that borders absurdity and ridicule. US is a capitalist orbit and the current culture trend supports this idealism through splashing of the satisfying country with advertisements from our TVs in our living rooms to erection of billboards on all(prenominal) in stock(predicate) space in out cities.Soda companies are not the only companies that have their advertisement in our school but we have other companies erecting their billboards in schools like Nike cloth line labels. Most of the materials that we use in classes come with signatures of the manufacturing companies which then defeat the nonsensical idea of routing commercialism from our schools.ConclusionImportant and vital concerns have been raised about the i nfluence of unhealthy sodas in our schools which might be contributing to the glide into abyss of obesity of obesity by the American society.Sodas are healthier compared to plain water available in taps and therefore it is better to take a soda than nothing. About riding commercialism from our schools, this is an argument that neglects to address other commercialism through advertisements that surround students around school and at home.The bid to kick vending machines from our schools is a campaign that tackles real concerns about obesity and commercialism in our society but from the wrong angle. This will only result in failure of the noble cause and therefore there is no point of denying our students much needed services of the machines and also the revenues associated with them.