Ethical Issues In Fast Food

First, the following quote shows how fast food is becoming more accessible to people. “ In 1970, Martinsburg had six fast-food restaurants; today it has more than forty.” (McJobs by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson) This supports my claim because it shows how fast food has become more accessible to all people and this is good because fast food is a valuable source of food for some people. The fact that more than a third of american kids eat fast food every day proves that.

McDonald, Burger King and Subway are the most popular fast food company. C. Thesis statement: Popularity of the fast food are getting an increase due to easy and quick service, inexpensive meanwhile there are also consist of negative effects if the fast food is becoming more common in society. Body A. Topic sentence: The reasons for fast foods becomes more popular is due to easy and quick services 1. Supporting point: Firstly, the customers able to get their food as soon as they order. a. Sub-supporting point: Today, people are very busy with their working lifestyle as they tend to find fast foods as a good choice because they don 't have enough time to find a healthy food.

Over recent years, the United States obesity epidemic has increased in abundance to the point where an individual should be worried about making healthier life choices. Eating habits are an immense reason why our health has changed for the worse since the 70s. People die young due to developing obesity related diseases. Diseases occur from choices people make, what one decides to eat, and how much an individual decides to eat. Studies show the life expectancy for an unhealthy person who chooses to eat a bigger portion size, often less than the average individual who keeps a balanced way of eating.

For example, he tells us that in 1970, Americans spent $6 billion on fast food, in 2001, $110 billion. He presents this numbers as a growing concern as now fast food is taking over the nation’s food industry. The author also makes an emphasis on the speed of the service keeps driving its sales. In class we discussed how one of the values driving fast food and the poor food industry was speed and convenience. In today’s fast paced lifestyle, a meal where you don’t even have to get out of your car to purchase and consume is as

3 1 in 3 Americans eat fast food daily, if all schools served McDonald’s that rate would raise to 3 in 4 Americans, and 4 40% of American meals are fast food already. McDonald’s food is filled with fats and calories, if we ate it everyday our bodies would go on overload because 5 girls recommended calorie intake is 2,000 calories per day and 6 boys are to take in 2,500 calories per

The Employer-Friendly Case for Pricier Big Macs Fast food, what a lot of people generally view as a quick way to get some good food, whether it be breakfast, lunch or dinner, is actually killing more people than you might think. In this modern time, almost everyone knows that fast food isn’t particularly the best thing for you to eat, but that won’t even come close to stopping us from eating it. I wonder why do we not ban fast food or limit it? The answer is simple; it makes us money.

This is a huge market since the U.S. and the world revolved around convenience. Although McDonald’s is very popular right now you never know if one day it will become a shadow to another company. Next, since there are so many competitors each company is trying to be unique and bring new things to the market. Whether it is McDonald’s McPick 2 or Wendy’s 4 for 4 competitors are trying to out shine each other, making it hard to compete and keep prices down sometimes. With a quick google search I found that there are over 50,000 different fast food chains in the United States alone.

Don’t Blame the Eater: Rebuttal In his article "Don 't Blame the Eater", David Zinczenko discusses that obesity is a grave health issue I the United States of America. He argues that almost all of the kids who eats at fast food joints are more likely to become obese. He then goes on to inform his readers that during his teenage years, he, like many other American kids, was surviving on fast-food due to it accessibility and affordability.

EVIDENCE - Studies show, “recent studies show that one in three children and teens is overweight or obese. The rate has tripled in the last 40 years” (10). EXPLANATION -Therefore, this shows the number of kids getting obesity or eating too much for their limit. TRANSITION SENTENCE

Obesity remains a growing epidemic that affects people who continually overindulge, causing weight gain which affects many countries and communities around the world especially the United States. During the last couple decade obesity has doubled and threatened people 's health because of adverse habits of overeating. Due to the advancement of mobile technology, fewer individuals perform physical labor. Instead, many people work from a computer where they spend long hours sitting at a desk consuming junk food non-physicality activity that leads to obesity. Consequently, some of the expense to the community regarding how obesity occurs causing medical complications of diabetes, heart attacks, and high blood pressure which produce expense on the economy.

Now don’t get me a wrong, a good juicy cheeseburger is good every once in a while. Through the opening of these fast food restaurants, kids, adults, and students alike will be more tempted than ever to spend the money on a quick and easy meal. I can’t count the number of times my parents have gotten take out simply because they didn’t want to cook. Secondly, the prices of fresh food are at an all-time high. Currently, the prices of fresh eggs are higher than recent years because of a bird flu.

Although high fructose corn syrup may be a contributor to obesity, it is not the main cause. H.F.C.S. may not be the culprit, overeating is one of the most crucial factors of obesity. Most Americans eat portions that are beyond healthy. Studies show that over the last twenty years, food portions in American’s restaurants have doubled or even tripled. This distorted the amount of food people think is healthy for them at home and when eating out.

When the minimum wage increases, business owners will have reduced profit, sales will fall off, and prices will raise. Eventually, the owner will not get any profit because the store will get $10 off sales but the worker demands $15 and the worker will have to be fired. A high minimum wage sounds like a great idea in the free market, but it seems like a joke. Customers will not agree to pay more on a product just because the business has to pay the worker more and they will lose a profit they really cannot afford to

Governments around the world need to promote physical activity, whether that be through more P.E. in school or other fitness programs (“Governments must act to reverse alarming rise in Childhood Obesity”). Governments should also support more healthy foods, especially since today McDonald’s will sell a burger for a dollar, but to buy a salad it costs much more. Also large corporations need to see the problem and stop ignoring it. PepsiCo has recognized that there is a lot of business opportunity in offering customers more healthy products, and health-oriented products are now the company’s fastest growing sector and currently represent almost 40% of the company (Hood). If other food and beverage companies could follow PepsiCo’s example, this world would be a much better place with a lot less obesity.

The To put this into perspective Brownlees article shows “ For every dollar a quick-service franchise spends to produce a food item, only 20 cents, on average, goes toward food.” I mean who wouldn 't think that 's a good idea more for less, but just like Shannon explains “...and the customer thinks he 's getting a good deal. And he would be, if he actually needed the extra calories.”, and this is completely correct. All this is because fast food businesses found out how to work us like puppets, the mystery behind overeating has been scientifically proven.