It is often argued that vending food or beverages item which are scientifically justified to be unhealthy and harmful shouldn’t be granted in the shops. I completely agree with this view.
One compelling reason for this stance is, it would undermine public health. This is because unhealthy products such as Salt, sugar,fats are strongly linked to diabetes, obesity and heart disease. For example, nowadays majority of people are suffering lifestyle related illness due to increase and availability of highly-processed food amd sugary drinks that leads to excess weight gain and at higher risk of type 2 diabetes. Moreover, this unhealthy food and drinks contain vulnerable chemical, which directly lower the activity of many human organ.
Supporters of this view often cites, consuming those products produce heavy financial burden on health care sector. This lead to suffer government with investing huge amount of money for treating those chronical disease because it requires long-term medical care, medication and hospital resources. For instance, a case in point is the United States government allocate a substantial amount of revenue treating obesity related disease. However,this can be addressed by adopting some measures. Government can encourage people to maintain healthier lifestyle and reduce the accessibility of the unwholesome and junk food in the local and Street shops.
In conclusion, Although unhealthy products are convenience, it should be restricted to trade in the local markets as it creates detrimental impact on human health, reduce productivity, build financial pressure on public health care sector which ultimately decline the economy of the country. Therefore, harmful products should be banned to sell and minimised in the local shops.