Present Reality About The Fast Food Industry In America

Do most Americans have a healthy meal? An average, American spends more than 1,000 dollars only on junk food or fast food. Today's history there is so much obesity because of junk food or fast food, thanks to the founders of the fast food restaurants. These founders didn't only find fast food restaurants but also caused an effect in Americans lives. The Fast Food Nation got better when McDonalds first built the assembly line, which everyone got impressed and it started to become national. Families started to enter these fast food restaurants because they are building playgrounds, bringing toys, and preparing a new menu for the kids. Which attracts kids to come with their parents. On the other hand in schools, there are fast food advertisements everywhere. Not only fast food advertisement but even in the student's menu there is fast food. The Fast Food Industry used little toddlers and younger kids as there advertisements.

That's not it the food these parents buy for their kids comes from an unclean place and this might cause you and your child to become ill. The Fast Food Nation grew extremely fast it started really small. People would sell hamburgers, hot dogs, sodas, and etc. in food carts. A man named Carl N. Karcher was one of the fast food industry's pioneers. Carl’s uncle offered him a job in Anaheim, California. He world be working at his uncle's shop. Anaheim was a small town surrounded by ranches and farms. Anaheim was the heart of southern California’s citrus a place where all the oranges, lemons, and tangerines were produced. When Carl was working at his uncle's shop he saw a woman that he got in love with. After a while he took her on an ice cream date, not long before they got married and had one child. Carl stopped working at his uncle’s shop and started to work at a bakery named Armstrong Bakery in L.A. After a while Carl saw how fast the food cart stands were getting popular. When Carl heard there was a hot dog cart for sale on Florence Avenue across Goodyear Factory, he had an idea of buying it. Carl went to Bank of America to borrow $311 putting his car as collateral for the loan, and persuaded his wife to give him $15. Carl said that “I’m in business for myself now. He didn’t want to lose his job at the bakery so he hired two men to work at the stand. Himself would be working at the bakery. He first had one food cart, as days went, he had four fast food carts. Then as time passed it started to get national and bigger. The Fast Food Nation grew really fast, McDonald's built the assembly line, then the drive-through came along and when all these inventions came out every fast food restaurants started to use it too. McDonald wasn't the only fast food restaurant there was Dominos, Wendy's, Burger King, Taco Bell, and etc., but from all these fast food restaurants Mcdonalds was the top restaurant.

When kids and their parents enter any fast food restaurant they don't know what process all these fast food experience. The french fries that this children and their parents eat are all frozen, in one day million pounds of fries were produced. The meat that is between your two bread comes from a place where there is poverty, homelessness, drug abuse, but the company that produces these meats is the nation's biggest meatpacking company. That's not the only situation the most dangerous job out there is the cutting of the meats. This position is one of the dangerous position out there because when these meats are being cut they are cut by knives. The working conditions in the slaughterhouse is extremely dangerous. The injury of teenage workers in the United states is about twice higher than adult workers. Every year there is, about 200,000 injured.

In the United States of America, about 200,000 people become ill a day of a disease named foodborne, 900 people are hospitalized, and even worse 14 people die. Something scare is that where your food is prepared there is rats, cockroaches, inside of the fast food restaurants. When your meat is at the slaughterhouse and it is being packed it is being shoveled. The employer who shovels the meat doesn't care what's inside of the meat. There might be a dead rat or a living rat, maybe a different animal, or even millions of bacteria. The objective of the Author here is to tells us this present reality out there about the Fast Food Industry. The Author wants us to spread the truth about the Fast Food Industry. A universal lesson from this book is these Fast Food Restaurants hid these secrets that not everyone knew too much, and which affected many people's lives the lesson from here hiding a secret doesn't help everyone it always affects the person opposite of you.

Telling the truth would always help you and the person opposite of you. Always be the person you are and tell the truth even if it will help your life.

Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All- American Meal is one of the best books I ever read. It gives you life lessons, and what is behind the Fast Food Industry. If I read another book about something unique it would about the secrets that the world is hiding from us.