Petition For Food ― by Faye, Phoebe, Roberta and Maya

To Whom It May Concern,

We are some foreign students from UCR Extension Centre. We are writing to you to express some opinions towards food style in Riverside. We found that food in Riverside is normally too oily, salty and sweet. We are not complaining the taste of food but the unhealthy eating style. Moreover, there are few of vegetables dishes in restaurants. Apart from it, the proportion of food size in supermarkets is too large. They seldom sell food in small proportion or small package.

In fact, we believe that there are some disadvantages of these problems. First of all, Heavy taste of food causes body diseases easily. Too much oil, sugar and salt will damage our health. For instance, high blood pressure and diabetes are caused by unhealthy eating habit. Secondly, obesity is one of these negative effects from these problems. Normally, overweight is well-known as a major reason of many diseases.

Thirdly, lack of various proportion of food sold in supermarkets will lead to food waste. Generally, most food is family-size package in supermarkets. However, the valid period of food is limited and it causes an opportunity that we can’t finish cooking the food before the valid period. Then, food waste will happen.

We are writing to you, asking for your help. In our opinion, there are some ways to solve these problems. Firstly, the state government should provide some guidelines about nutrition to restaurants in Riverside to avoid surplus ingestion. If they carry out these guidelines, there is a possibility to solve high obesity problem which is very common in the United States and other diseases problem which comes from this obesity. Secondly, supermarkets should supply some small-size packages of food and restaurants should provide various amount of food to meet the needs of different people. In addition, it is better to add some connection between farms and supermarkets in order to let the supermarkets keep supply raw and fresh food. All in all, to keep the food condition well, should the government make investigation monthly or a few times a month?

Thanks for your help.