The dangers of fast food come in two types. There are the inescapable dangers posed by the high fat and calorie article of fast foods. There are also some underground dangers rarely considered.
When a man is told that fast food is not good for them from a nutritional point of view, he is hardly surprised. The relationship between fast food and the almost epidemic obesity of the American citizen is a fairly well known fact. Still, the factors that make fast food so beloved still seem to be powerful adequate to make the majority of the citizen ignore the inescapable risks of poor food and weight problems. Fast food is legitimately available, relatively cheap, most citizen find it tasty and filling and it can be purchased fast.
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There are very few alternatives to the high fat and high calorie menus in the fast food restaurants. Although many seem to be making some exertion to offer low cal alternatives, they end up ruining these offerings with sauces and dressings loaded with fat content. Even though these alternatives are offered, it is still the hamburger and fried chicken that is the king of fast food, and tiny has been done to cut the impact of these foods on obesity.
One of the major culprits in the fast food is the cooking oil used in the establishment of so many of the foods. This oil is not general cooking oil, which is full of adequate fat, but, is commonly extra hydrogenated cooking oil that undergoes a process designed to growth its shelf life. This process makes it downright perilous for human consumption as it produces high levels of trans fats. These fat compounds are barely recognizable as food by the human body and end up getting stored as fat cells or heading right to an artery to start clogging it up.
Beyond the nutritional problems are someone else set of problems. The fast food industry has changed the slaughter and meat packing industry. The fast food industry needs to furnish colossal amounts of chopped beef for its millions of pre-prepared hamburger patties sold each day. The methods used to furnish those hamburgers are creating a situation where meat packing plants are involving away from their old areas where unionized and trained meat packers slaughtered animals in a fairly effective and humane manner. The new plants have moved to smaller towns where underpaid workers, often immigrants, are slaughtering animals and producing meat in an unsafe manner. The dangers of contamination of this meat are getting higher and higher. The working conditions are perilous for the employees as well.
The fast food restaurants are staffed by large numbers of underage workers. In many cases, child labor laws limiting working hours are ignored, and studies have shown that despite publicity efforts by the fast food industry to show otherwise, these workers tend to have higher incidences of drug use and do poorly in school. These group costs of the fast food industry are often overlooked. Finally, if we listen to the citizen in the local food and slow food movements, this whole fascination with fast, fast, and faster is impacting the very ability of human life in a negative fashion.
Fast Food - Direct and Indirect Harm
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