Fast Food

Michael Hicks

Dr.Kartalopolous

English II

March 28th 2015

                                        What’s in Your Food?

        This is a question asked by millions of American’s. Different companies after company, many products, Moss indicates how Big Food plans items for greatest addictiveness and overeat ability. Oreos, Cheetos, Lunchables, Wonder Bread, they're all the same Iowa corn and Brazilian sugarcane, merely condensed, colored and transformed into distinctive shapes and hues. The foods we eat on a regular basis are processed and injected with many chemicals that are super harmful to the human body. Even some of the food items that people use in their homes to make an old fashion home- cooked meal can be very hazardous to a person’s health. The tasty burger you consistently eat in your most loved restaurant could in all likelihood be made of chicken crap, the stomach of dead and debilitated cows or malignancy bringing about operators like sodium nitrites. Plenty of fast food restaurants have to make their customers happy, by producing an abundant amount of meat and plenty of other manufactured goods. Manufactured foods are not healthy for our bodies and can harm our bodies.

        Fast Food restaurants are seen almost everywhere in America. Because plenty of people who live busy lives in America; Americans often don’t have time to go to a grocery store and cook food. As a result of Americans active lifestyles, Americans tend to go to another quicker alternative; fast food. Americans are unaware of what they consume into their bodies when they eat these atrocious meals from fast food restaurants. In order to make McDonald’s most famous nuggets, chickens are to be given a long and horrendous process. Due to the fact that McDonald’s has to produce a mass amount of food items at a fast pace, they don’t have the time to sit and wait for a menu item to go through the natural cycle that it would generally go through. For example, a chicken would take up to 16 weeks for it to reach its adult stage and for it to be properly slaughtered. McDonald’s has such a high demand for chicken in order to make their marvelous chicken nuggets. In order to meet their needs, they need the chicken to be slaughtered, frozen, and shipped off at a very fast pace. 16 weeks is forever to McDonalds, for them to meet their high demands for chicken they must drug the animal with hormones chemicals in order to speed up the natural process in chickens. Steroids are often given to chickens as well so that the chicken could be bigger, as a result, chickens grow body parts that are supernatural. McDonalds and other fast food restaurants are very well known for participating in these types of activities in order to meet their high demands for foods. This process is seen in plenty of animals, vegetables, and fruits as well.  Fast food restaurants freeze their foods that can be very deteriorating to our health.