We as humans are guilty of succumbing to our bodies temptations to treat ourselves to a Big Mac or a Doritos Locos Taco from our favorite fast food chains, and as we do we have a large negative impact on the earth without even realizing it. With our help fast food industries like McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Taco Bell-- some of the world’s most popular fast food industries-- are destroying the health of our Earth’s environment and its inhabitants.
Fast food contain a lot of harmful chemicals used to alter the taste and longevity of some of the products like preservatives, flavoring agents, and pesticides (Byloos). Chemicals like Butylated Hydroxyanisole-- or BHA for short-- act as chemical preservative as it is added to foods with oils in order to increase their longevity. It also helps to keep the oil from seeping into burger wrappers, chicken nugget cartons, french frie containers, or pizza boxes. BHA contains perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) that break down and linger within people’s bodies after consumption. Researchers have found that this chemical can cause cancer, trigger …show more content…
Deforestation is the action of clearing a wide area of trees. Fast Food industries need somewhere to build their empires, right? With the expansion of these big corporations, more space is needed for them to plant their factories and restaurants, and so here comes the bulldozers ready to tear down forests in order to make their money. This results in the displacement of Earth’s plant and animal species (Tobin). Burger King is the biggest fast food deforestation culprit there is in places like South America (Pouget) particularly in Brazil and Bolivia. Due to BK’s size and scale, connections with other major food companies, and unwillingness to to address the problem, the big business drives the global meat industry into a bad
Fast food contain a lot of harmful chemicals used to alter the taste and longevity of some of the products like preservatives, flavoring agents, and pesticides (Byloos). Chemicals like Butylated Hydroxyanisole-- or BHA for short-- act as chemical preservative as it is added to foods with oils in order to increase their longevity. It also helps to keep the oil from seeping into burger wrappers, chicken nugget cartons, french frie containers, or pizza boxes. BHA contains perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) that break down and linger within people’s bodies after consumption. Researchers have found that this chemical can cause cancer, trigger …show more content…
Deforestation is the action of clearing a wide area of trees. Fast Food industries need somewhere to build their empires, right? With the expansion of these big corporations, more space is needed for them to plant their factories and restaurants, and so here comes the bulldozers ready to tear down forests in order to make their money. This results in the displacement of Earth’s plant and animal species (Tobin). Burger King is the biggest fast food deforestation culprit there is in places like South America (Pouget) particularly in Brazil and Bolivia. Due to BK’s size and scale, connections with other major food companies, and unwillingness to to address the problem, the big business drives the global meat industry into a bad