Poor Parenting Is Not the Fault of Food Companies: New at Reason

A study of infant diets in one British city has revealed some uncomfortable truths about what many parents feed their children.

“Some mums were giving children chips, crisps and sugary drinks at five months old,” said the study’s lead author, Pinki Sahota, in comments this week to the Daily Mirror. “The fact children are having this kind of food at such an early age is concerning enough. But parents are establishing bad eating habits for life.” 

She’s right. Parents are to blame here. But they’re not alone. The parents of those parents, too, who’ve failed to teach their own children that feeding French fries and soda to an infant is no way to raise a child, deserve some share of the blame. Unfortunately, Baylen Linnekin explains, people like Sahota want to instead use the situation to force more regulations onto food companies. 

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