Harm Of Fast Food

Eric Schlosser once said, “Fast food is popular because it 's convenient, it 's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu”. Fast food companies are known around the word for their easy to read menus, low prices and fast services; fast food franchises do not inform customers about what arrives to the restaurant, who handles all of the food and how healthy the food is when digested. These companies harm not only millions of people that fest there daily but also areas of society that affect everyone around them. Three areas of society that are harmed by the companies that supply millions of people with cheap fast food are: the nation’s health, economy, and environment. First is the nation’s health. In “The Ritual of Fast Food,” the narrator states that the parents teach their children at a young age “goodness of a hamburgers” (Vasser 131). Customer’s health are at risk due to lack of healthy nutrition needed in a meal, but they are taught at a young age that fast food is healthy, cheap and a treat. A Wikipedia article reports that in 2003 Morgan Spurlock filmed a thirty-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003, during which he ate only McDonald’s food (“Super Size Me”). Every day for thirty days he ate …show more content…
These companies “[introduce] playful corporate mascots and children’s meals with free toys” making it easier for families to come and enjoy a meal (“Fast Food”). Little does this family know is how they are effected by the how many calories each meal really has, how there inexpensive and fast meal can be causing the workers with four kids at home to live with only minimum wage of $7.25 a hour and how they are messing with the idea of having a traditional homemade dinner. Fast food in this nation is effecting every area of this