First this: As nouns the difference between obligation and responsibility is that obligation is the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone while responsibility is the state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
Notice that this is a PERSONAL issue, not an organizational one.
Now this:
City food service officials have downplayed the complaints, while stressing they have an obligation to instill healthy eating habits in their charges.
No, you do not. You may have an obligation to serve health foods, even a lawful requirement. Certainly one not to make them sick or disgusted (how’s that going #ThankYouMichelleObama). Parents, on the other hand, have both the responsibility AND obligation to raise their children and are the ones for which “instill healthy eating habits” for their children. Not the Parents’ employees (government workers).
Yet another example of government mission creep.
(H/T: Union Leader)
