{"id":19848,"date":"2010-02-02T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=19848"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:17:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:17:58","slug":"saving-the-world-one-vending-machine-lecture-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/02\/saving-the-world-one-vending-machine-lecture-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the World One Vending Machine Lecture At A Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vending machine below is a great example of the folly of relying on individual will in the absence of supportive institutional change.\u00a0 “Choose sensibly,” the vending machine, exhorts… as it tempts you with fresh fruit, but offers you nothing but snack foods that are high in calories and low in nutritional value:<\/p>\n

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This makes me think of the many iterations of public service campaigns that tell people to have a good attitude and work on their character.\u00a0 Yes, those are lovely things, but if people are going to make good choices, the options need to be there.<\/p>\n

Found at Doctor Grumpy in the House<\/a>, an amusing blog in which a doctor complains about doctoring.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The vending machine below is a great example of the folly of relying on individual will in the absence of supportive institutional change.\u00a0 “Choose sensibly,” the vending machine, exhorts… as it tempts you with fresh fruit, but offers you nothing but snack foods that are high in calories and low in nutritional value: This makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,23704],"class_list":["post-19848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-public-service-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19848"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60499,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions\/60499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}