1900s Fast Food

FAST FOOD FAILS

Did you know that 90% of Americans have fast food every day? That means that you have probably had fast food today. Maybe you were driving home, and were very hungry. You were looking for a place to eat. You see a McDonald’s, and get a Big Mac. If you have ever done this, you should know that it is not a good choice because it is not healthy, you and the employees of the companies are being manipulated, and because the fast food industry creates jobs that are low-paying, which causes the workers to have to be supported by the government because they do not make enough money to live.

Fast food is known for being unhealthy. During the 1900s, hamburgers were thought to be unsafe to eat. This belief has changed over time, but

Fast food restaurants also manipulate children by selling toys with Happy Meals. According to the Huffington Post,

“The Federal Trade Commission has reported that fast-food companies—with McDonald’s by far in the lead—spent $360 million in 2006 on toys to market children’s meals. In the same year, fast food restaurants sold more than 1.2 billion children’s meals with toys to children ages 12 and under, accounting for 20 percent of all child traffic at those restaurants”.

This shows that fast food restaurants are manipulating children by bribing them with toys. Since the children want the toys, they make their parents get the Happy Meal, which is often very unhealthy. Even worse are the collect-them-all toys, where children keep making their parents get them Happy Meals in order to collect all of the

Government assistance money is taxpayer money, so every time you order a cheap meal at McDonalds, you are paying extra to keep the employees around. At fast food restaurants, food is made on an assembly line, as if it were a factory. According to “McJobs”, by Eric Schlosser, “The ovens at Domino’s often use conveyor belts”. At Taco Bell, food is assembled, not prepared. The cooking process is simply: just add water. At McDonald’s, an executive named Fred Turner created a manual that detailed exactly how every procedure should be done. This makes working at McDonalds a physical job, not an intellectual job. People who do these kind of jobs are called ‘unskilled laborers’, and are paid minimum wage. The fact that working at McDonald’s does not require skill gives the company a vast amount of power over its employees. The company doesn’t need skilled workers, but people who are willing to do what they are