Eating of healthy food is the best way to keep our body physically fit. A number of people argue that government should provide financial aid on the fruit and vegetables, so people who are under the poverty line would buy that healthy food at cheaper price. While other opposes this view, according to them, government should increase the tax on unhealthy food. I completely agree with this opinion that government should help people to purchase healthy goods to eat, increasing tax on unhealthy food is not the solution. I will be discussing both the views in the essay.
To begin with, if the people who are not able to afford the price of healthy food like fruits and vegetables, they chose to buy rotten food products which cost them lower in price than that of healthy items. Because of this, they are facing various health problems, such as food poisoning in stomach. Increasing tax on unhealthy food will not going to help in reducing the food crisis problem of poor people, wealthy people can still afford both healthier and unhealthier food. The government can help poor people by giving them healthy food in cheaper price. For example, the government can run a scheme in which they provide card to the people who are in under poverty line and if people show their card in one particular government registered shops then the owner of the shop will provide them fruits, vegetables, rice and wheat in low price and the quality of product is also good.
However increasing the tax on the food items, which are unhealthy, will not solve the problem of poor people. The owner of the shop will be affected by this decision of the government, as they now have to pay more money to the government. For instance, the price of glass of soda is cheaper than one glass of milk. Instead of rising price of fast food is not the solution. If the government provide subsidize on healthy products then it will equalize the price of healthy foods and fast foods which give people choice to select product according to their necessity.
To conclude, rising the price of fast food items is not the solution to the problem of health of poor people. This kind of steps will not going to benefit any one. However, inducing different schemes will going to help people, who are under poverty line.