Eating is part of an organism’s life. Everything that lives and breathes in some way has to take in nutrition through the food they eat. Food and eating food is a necessary fact of life because everything needs to be sustained, and that is how organisms were made to gain those nutrients. Eating began as a necessary survival tool, however as people and populations have grown, shifted, moved, and changed people have begun eating in family settings all around the dinner table as more of a social event than purely for survival. As time progressed, more and more families began to have both parents working. This cut down on the amount of family mealtime and gave children more time to be at school doing more activities. All of these factors added
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He found that “We're so litigious that we're going to sue a food company, that sells us food, that we buy, that we eat and then blame them for it” (Spurlock). This quote sums up American mentality very well. Consumers pay for the product, consume or use the product, and then get upset when something doesn’t turn out the desired way. In this case, Spurlock talks about how the unexpected outcome is to gain weight or become unhealthy, yet that is what is going to happen if people are irresponsible with their bodies and those in the rest of our country. Now, Spurlock’s story and experiment is only the tip of the iceberg. The country knows what happens to your physical and mental body when you go on a McDonald’s diet for a month straight, but what happens before that food even makes it to the drive …show more content…
Everyone has seen the chicken nuggets that do not appear to resemble any type of the chicken, and the word has to admit to wondering how there can be so many restaurants that serve the exact same meal and it tastes the same all the way across the board. Eric Schlosser tells the secret behind the infamous McDonald’s fries in his book Fast Food Nation. One learns the story about J.R. Spimlot and how he single-handedly won over the hearts and taste buds of the American people with his French fries served at every McDonalds since 1965. The story is more than just one of success of a successful businessman, it is the story of how a food could single-handedly change the course of our country and the way human bodies yearn for things like salt and
He found that “We're so litigious that we're going to sue a food company, that sells us food, that we buy, that we eat and then blame them for it” (Spurlock). This quote sums up American mentality very well. Consumers pay for the product, consume or use the product, and then get upset when something doesn’t turn out the desired way. In this case, Spurlock talks about how the unexpected outcome is to gain weight or become unhealthy, yet that is what is going to happen if people are irresponsible with their bodies and those in the rest of our country. Now, Spurlock’s story and experiment is only the tip of the iceberg. The country knows what happens to your physical and mental body when you go on a McDonald’s diet for a month straight, but what happens before that food even makes it to the drive …show more content…
Everyone has seen the chicken nuggets that do not appear to resemble any type of the chicken, and the word has to admit to wondering how there can be so many restaurants that serve the exact same meal and it tastes the same all the way across the board. Eric Schlosser tells the secret behind the infamous McDonald’s fries in his book Fast Food Nation. One learns the story about J.R. Spimlot and how he single-handedly won over the hearts and taste buds of the American people with his French fries served at every McDonalds since 1965. The story is more than just one of success of a successful businessman, it is the story of how a food could single-handedly change the course of our country and the way human bodies yearn for things like salt and