Wednesday, October 15, 2014
The Trouble with Fries
McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and many other fast food corporations are indeed political. Ever since Ray Kroc invented the first "McDonald" french fries, more and more McDonald restaurants rose, as well as the demand for these foods. As the years progressed, the quality of the foods has been released to the public which resulted to many opinions against it and many scientist trying to combat it. In "The Trouble with Fries", a team from Auburn University (Auburn Team) attempted to create a ground beef that would cut two-thirds fat and succeeded. This is why people view fast food in political terms. Whenever the public opinion changes, fast food corporations are taking the next step to meet the needs and are always expanding their business for the common goal of more profit. In the end after four years, the reduced fat meat, or The AU Lean, was taken down because eating "healthy" wasn't in the public's agenda.
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I completely agree that fast food corporations change their food quality to meet the standards of the consumers. Corporations have changed the way foods have been produced since it was first started out. I think corporations only care about making money and care less about what they put in their foods. If only the government stepped in and added laws to regulate better quality foods, then it can prevent corporations from adding mysterious meats in their disguised foods.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that fast food restaurants do change some of their food qualities but I don't think it's because of politics if anything it's to keep consumers coming back for more. Politics has very little to do with the changes that go on in fast food restaurants, these big corporation are just in it for the money so whether their food is unhealthy for you or the food is made from very poor ingredients then don't really care as long as they keep you coming back for more and making money. The only way to change this I think Is to make it like illegal or to make standards for the ingredients in the food for example fast food only being able to be made out of top quality ingredients.
ReplyDeleteI agree, fast food is political. Our government must take action soon to reduce the amount of ever exceeding calories in our menus. Our children are getting more and more obese every passing year. Also, the government must take action to start up more healthier food programs all across the country and teach our kids how and why to eat healthy.
ReplyDeleteI agree when you said "....fast food corporations are taking the next step to meet the needs and are always expanding their business for the common goal of more profit." Fast food restaurants don't really care for their customers health, they only want to make profits. Nowadays when americans health aren't in good shapes, fast food restaurants shouldn't make it worse by making more unhealthy foods. They should not show the fact that food are "healthy" or "unhealthy" and just let people pick what they want to eat. If they list the food as "healthy" the public would most likely not eat it.
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