The impact of fast food in America

 

Fast food has grown so much since the last century and it has been so different from the last century.  Everywhere we go, we see McDonalds, Burger King, Taco bell, or Hardees.  Fast food provides Americans with food faster, and cheaper, but it also comes with a cost. 

         With 60% of Americans already overweight, having so many accessible fast food restaurants in America will only increase the obesity rate.   With obesity also comes with complications, heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, and other types of diseases.   In the documentary, Supersize Me Morgan Spurlock, goes on a journey of eating McDonald’s every day, 3 meals a day, for 30 days.  You see the health complications he gets from eating fast food every day.  With big fast food companies, they will pour in billions of dollars into advertising to persuade you to eat there as often as you can.  Fast food is simply not healthy and will cause the rise of obesity if the fast food industry continues to rise. 
          In a business standpoint, fast food companies own the largest food industries.  McDonalds control the largest manufacture of cattle, potatoes and apples.  It's scary to think of how much fast food restaurants have grown all over the nation.  With the growth of more fast food chains, they are not going to care about how well you eat.  It's all about cheapness, speed, quantity and taste.   If the fast food industry keeps growing, the control over food will also grow.  
        Fast food companies don't want us to know about what we are eating, because if we do, then we won't buy them and as a result they begin losing money.  Take a moment to think about how many foods that you have eaten that are not local grown? They are usually produced from either another state or even from another country!  We don't know exactly where our food comes from.  We have come from a society in which foods are not carefully grown but rather food industries care more about quantity rather than quality.  Quantity is where the big profit comes in because more people will buy it.   After watching the documentary over the food industry, it really opened my eyes and made me care about what foods I  am eating, my lifestyles has changed.  I eat only organic now, and I am slowly going towards in becoming a vegetarian.  I hope that each one of you will develop a sense of curiosity and question the food that you are eating, instead of just eating everything.  We only have one life, might as well make a healthy one.