Is it wrong for our culture to promote competetive eating as a sport there are people starving to death?
142931
I think so. I also feel its wrong for our culture to promote extreme dieting when there are people starving to death all over the world. Ironically, we are spending huge amounts of money and time to try and achieve the same emaciated look that people all over the world are trying to escape having. Our culture really just needs to look sensably at food, it is a gift and we should eat enough to make us full and keep us healthy.
435391
A sin?  No, but it is wrong if you know they are on a diet.  It is never right to sabotage someone if you know they are trying to lose weight.  If they aren't on a diet, no issue.  However, I am so health conscious that I would have chosen something other than chocolate...like a fruit basket.
144747
This is a very tricky question.  See i am a woman, I grew up on a farm.  Im 36 and a single mother of two.  To me, if you are hunting animals, then it had better be for food.  Not for decorations, fur, or for something to do.  I dont believe that it should be just a sport.  There are times, when I didnt have any meat to put on the table, and no money to buy meat.  I sure wish at those times, I knew how to hunt.  It is hard to buy meat, i think, it is extrememly expensive, I get tired of bologna and hamburger.  But this is just one persons' opinion.  I hope I helped.  Barb(indiana)
1122145
i agree in another country they throw flour to each other  i also think that they should send the food they are going to waste like that to asia or africa or any of those countries where you see that people doesn't have anything to eat or even clean water to drink. we should never forget that god gave us this earth and everything in it is for everybody. same with rich people i'm not saying all of them but the mayority, they are multi millionaire, why couldn't they take a few million dollars and send some food to those countries, instead you see them buying real expensive cars and houses, they only think about themselves nobody else.  We have to stop thinking about ourselves a little and start thinking about everybody else. lets say you and your children are starving wouldn't you like that at least somebody will give you food for your kids. put yourselves in that position. think of what those people have to go thru seeing their love ones die because they don't have nothing to eat.  seeing their own children die of diseases and starvation, and some of us that have everything we complaint  that is not enough . just think about it.
969221
I think sports has bad and good quality outcomes.  You can have kids who participate and become violent, competitive and agressive.  On the other hand you can get kids who learn how to work well in groups, encourage others and learn how to fail, as well as learn how to work hard to achieve.
672350
Caning, paddling, physical abuse is not OK.\n\nI don't care that it's a "tradition". It serves no real purpose.
162441
People who are responcible for obisity...is our self.  Mcdonalds don't force us to eat their food.   Pizza joints don't force us to eat their food....its our own decision in how we treat our body...like smokers who choose to smoke.  People in america just have a thing to blame other people them themselvs.
39215
it is a very sad thing. people should be happy with the body that god gave them. just take care of yourself and your health there should be no need to not eat and make yourself sick to be skiny. if you have a problem then email me and maybe i can help you. dygirl4life@yahoo.com
546294
sport encourages (or ones competitiveness is measured in the degree of effort they put into given tasks)the inborn instinct  for survival for many different reasons. Some people have the inability to off the machine or "put the breaks on \n   Sport is great but we are not encouraging it as much as we should
146343
people do it for the game.  Do I believe it in ..no I think its horrible, but cant really be on the negative side since I eat meat and wear leather.
681373
No, being a body contact sport, it is often accidental.  Players act out of reflex.  But spear tackles should be eliminated and offending players should be banned for life.
847595
Americans choose quantity over quality when it comes to food.. everything is super sized. A lot of us do not sit and enjoy a meal, we eat while doing other things, like driving, watching TV, etc., which makes us eat more without thinking. Also, it is not a coincidence, I'm sure, that we have more cars here in  USA than most places, which makes us get less exercise. The worship of thinness here in USA is contradictory to what we as a nation look like. The standard of thinness that is worshiped here is so unnatural and extreme that some people give up s thinking it unattainable and let themselves go even more than if it were a normal  weight standard set.
857350
I'm a high school teacher, and I think it would be interesting to look at eating disorders among high school athletes, particularly wrestlers.  There is tremendous pressure on these young men to maintain their weight and ranking.  There has been enough written and research regarding young women, but I think that school-sanctioned disordered eating patterns in wrestlers and football players needs to be investigated.
250436
essentially, understanding anothe culture is all about experiencing another culture. You don't know what hunger is until you have been starved and you do not know what freedom is until you have been opressed. Also people think differently in other countries (the best news in the states comes from the brits) so it's quite an experience going abroad and I would highly reccomend it.
759960
I think it's because they can't feel good about themselves unless they're beating somebody at something.  Somehow they've got it into their heads that in order to be considered "the best" at something you must be better than others around you.  There is no such thing as just doing your best and being satisfied with that.  It has to be compared to somebody else's performance, usually a peer, in order for it to mean something to really competitive people.\n\nIn the US our society has really fostered this in business and personal dealings.  Competition is glorified on tv.  Look at the reality shows - Survivor, Dancing with the Stars, The Amazing Race, Hell's Kitchen - just to name a few.
752605
No, why should they..\nif people cant control them selfs with what they eat, and they get fat..\nthen the fatness is there punishment!\nthere is not need to remove fast food from a school campus! =]
128064
Seems like it to me. I think the death penalty is bad for our culture. It doesn't do anyone good to support the murder of another. My friend who is pro life and pro death penalty says that people who have taken another life should lose theres. where as children who have not been born have not done anything wrong.