Chan, Marcus IR #3 - Do the benefits of fast food outweighs the disadvantage?
Introduction
Fast food is believed to have been birth in 1916 in Wichita, Kansas. (Tracy V. Wilson, 2016) However the assembly-line system of food preparation we associate with modern fast food restaurants didn’t come until the original McDonald’s got its start in the 1940s. (“McDonald’s History”, 2016) Fast food also have a lot of negative effects on humans as well, fast food is junk food which causes different kinds of health problems, as well as to the environment.
Fast food industry kept on increasing on a rapidly speed which can leads to a very high demand on factory farming, and factory farming causes air pollution, global warming and water pollution.(Richard,2010) …show more content…
In this section, we will discuss some of the positive and negative world-wide repercussions of fast food. Fast food come with a few negative global consequences. The packaging of fast food have a lots of negative affects the environment. Fast food industry uses an incredible amount of plastic. About 311 million metric ton of plastic was produced each year.(“The new plastics economy”, 2016)There were 49% of the plastic in America that was produced by fast food litter. (Cheeseman Gina-Marie, 2011)
Secondly, Fast food has been a catalyst in the development of factory farming - which has led to more efficient ands cheap food production. Weis(2007) said that “ Given the cost-accounting system in which food produced by machinery, fossil fuels and chemicals appears so much more cheaply than food produced by labour-intensive organic method” As in Food Inc. (2008), a representative from the U.S. National Chicken Council also described factory farming as a process that produces “a lot of food on a small amount of land at a very affordable price.” and in order for fast food restaurants like McDonald to make cheap and standardized food of course they will chose factory farming, and factory farming will course air pollution, water pollution, soil depletion and diminishing biodiversity (Horrigan Leo, S Lawrence Robert , and Walker Polly, 2002). As well as reason for rapid spread of bird (H5N2) and swine (H1N1) flu which make a total of $3.3bn industry losses due to US bird flu outbreak in 2015.
Introduction
Fast food is believed to have been birth in 1916 in Wichita, Kansas. (Tracy V. Wilson, 2016) However the assembly-line system of food preparation we associate with modern fast food restaurants didn’t come until the original McDonald’s got its start in the 1940s. (“McDonald’s History”, 2016) Fast food also have a lot of negative effects on humans as well, fast food is junk food which causes different kinds of health problems, as well as to the environment.
Fast food industry kept on increasing on a rapidly speed which can leads to a very high demand on factory farming, and factory farming causes air pollution, global warming and water pollution.(Richard,2010) …show more content…
In this section, we will discuss some of the positive and negative world-wide repercussions of fast food. Fast food come with a few negative global consequences. The packaging of fast food have a lots of negative affects the environment. Fast food industry uses an incredible amount of plastic. About 311 million metric ton of plastic was produced each year.(“The new plastics economy”, 2016)There were 49% of the plastic in America that was produced by fast food litter. (Cheeseman Gina-Marie, 2011)
Secondly, Fast food has been a catalyst in the development of factory farming - which has led to more efficient ands cheap food production. Weis(2007) said that “ Given the cost-accounting system in which food produced by machinery, fossil fuels and chemicals appears so much more cheaply than food produced by labour-intensive organic method” As in Food Inc. (2008), a representative from the U.S. National Chicken Council also described factory farming as a process that produces “a lot of food on a small amount of land at a very affordable price.” and in order for fast food restaurants like McDonald to make cheap and standardized food of course they will chose factory farming, and factory farming will course air pollution, water pollution, soil depletion and diminishing biodiversity (Horrigan Leo, S Lawrence Robert , and Walker Polly, 2002). As well as reason for rapid spread of bird (H5N2) and swine (H1N1) flu which make a total of $3.3bn industry losses due to US bird flu outbreak in 2015.