Info about Fast Food
The Unhealthy World of Fast Food
Most people know that fast food is not healthy, but most of us still eat it a few times a week. People eat fast food mainly because it is cheap, convenient, and tastes pretty good.
The cost is certainly an important consideration in today’s economy. Everyone is trying to trim their budget, but we still do not need to feed toxic chemicals and dead food to our families.
In recent years, almost all of the books and documentaries that have been published show how bad fast food is for us. These publications focus mainly on the high fat and high sodium content. Most of them do not discuss the real dangers of fast food and what makes it really unfit to eat.
If people really knew what they were putting in their mouths when they order that fast food meal, they would probably never touch it again. It is more than just being unhealthy, it is horrible and disgusting. Anyone who is trying to overcome sickness or have their bodies become more pure must stay completely away from this fast food.
According to Fast Food Nation, a book released by Eric Schlosser in 2002, the fast food business is full of lies, deception, and outright fraud. This along with human and animal cruelty makes the fast food business a sordid business. This book is well researched and has received worldwide praise. The fast food industry presented a protest against the book because they did not agree with the conclusion, but when they were asked if there were any errors in the book, they state there were none.
The processing line has gone from processing 175 cattle a day twenty years ago to the workers being required to kill about 400 cattle every hour. The rate at which the workers have to move in order to do this causes many injuries. The workers stand very close together in the same spot for hours at the time swinging a large sharp knife over and over to cut up the cow into smaller pieces that can be processed. It is common for them to make a mistake and injure another worker. If they fall behind they risk losing their job. The fast pace that they are required to keep contributes to many serious injuries to workers and several deaths have been cause from it.
Animal cruelty is another thing that makes the fast food industry so terrible. The animals are kept in very crowded conditions and they are often fed food that is not healthy for them. Before 1997, about seventy-five percent of them were fed waste products from other animals that had been processed and dead pets from animal shelters. The FDA still allows dead pigs, horses, and poultry to be turned into cattle feed. Cattle blood is often found in the food too. Do not make the mistake of thinking that chickens are treated any better.
Scientists then add chemicals to this unhealthy food to make it look and smell like fresh healthy foods. These chemical often go unnoticed because it is legal for them to be listed as natural flavors.
This article just briefly discusses some of the issues with fast food. If you are interested you might consider doing your own research to find out some more reasons fast food is simply not healthy for our bodies.