Fast Food Nation by Mackenzie Gibson

thayer2232 — 2015-02-19 18:36:29 UTC

Category #1: Fast Food is Growing (in every way)

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 18:49:53 UTC

Uncle McDonald: "A decade ago, McDonald's has about three thousand restaurants outside the United States; today it has about fifteen thousand restaurants in more than 117 foreign countries."

Category #1: Fast Food is Growing (in every way)

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 18:50:34 UTC

An Empire of Fat: "During the 1980s, the sale of fast food in Japan more than doubled; the rate of obesity among children soon doubled, too."

Category #2: There is Blind Love for Fast Food

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 18:52:57 UTC

At the Circus: "A group of patrons at a Moscow Pizza Hut thanked him [Mikhail Gorbachev] in the add for bringing the fast food chain to Russia and then shouted 'Hail to Gorbachev!'"

Category #2: There is Blind Love for Fast Food

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 18:54:29 UTC

Plauen: "Plauen has been a battlefield for these competing ideologies, with their proudly displayed and archetypal symbols: the smokestack, the swastika, the hammer and sickle, the golden arches."

Category #1: Fast Food is Growing (in every way)

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 18:55:45 UTC

Uncle McDonald: "Germany is not only the largest country in Europe, but also the most Americanized."

Category #1: Fast Food is Growing (in every way)

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 18:57:14 UTC

Empire of Fat: "The CDC estimates that 280,000 Americans die every year as a direct result of being overweight."

Category #2: There is Blind Love for Fast Food

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 18:59:23 UTC

At the Circus: "Even its name [Mirage Hotel] suggests the triumph of illusion over reality, a promise that you won't believe your eyes."

Category #3: The World Accepts Fast Food

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 19:02:15 UTC

Uncle McDonald: "This McDonald's was in Dachau, but it could ave been anywhere -- anywhere in the United States, anywhere in the world. Millions of other people at that very moment were standing at the same counter, ordering the same food from the same menu, food that tasted everywhere the same."

Category #3: The World Accepts Fast Food

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 19:04:24 UTC

Uncle McDonald: "The golden arches have become so comonplace in Germany that they almost see invisible."

Category #3:The World Accepts Fast Food

thayer2232 — 2015-02-24 19:05:22 UTC

Uncle McDonald: "'Welcome to Dachau,' said the leaflets, 'and welcome to McDonald's.'"

Category #3: The World Accepts Fast Food

potter9628 — 2015-02-25 18:49:30 UTC

An Empire of Fat: "44 million American adults are obese. An additional 6 million are 'super obese'; they weigh about 100 pounds more than they should."

Category #1: Fast Food is Growing (in every way)

thayer2232 — 2015-02-25 18:53:17 UTC

Uncle McDonald: "The values, tastes, and industrial practices of the American fast food industry are being exported to every corner of the globe, helping to create a homogenized international culture that sociologest Benjamin R. Barber has labeled 'McWorld.'"

Category #4: There are No Good Reasons to Eat This

thayer2232 — 2015-02-25 18:57:35 UTC

At the Circus: "Executives from the major fast food companies had gathered to discuss, among other things, the latest labor-saving machinery and the prospect of someday employing a workforce the needed 'zero training.'"

Category #4: There are No Good Reasons to Eat This

thayer2232 — 2015-02-25 18:58:57 UTC

McLibel: "It accused the fast food chain of promoting Third World poverty , selling unhealthy food, exploiting workers and children, torturing animals, and destroying the Amazon rainforest, among other things."

Category #5: We Have Become Accustomed to Fat

thayer2232 — 2015-02-25 19:02:06 UTC

McLibel: "Fast food has become an easy target because it is so ubiquitous and because it threatens a fundamental aspect of national identity: How, Where, and What people choose to eat."

Category #5: We Have Become Accustomed to Fat

thayer2232 — 2015-02-25 19:03:19 UTC

An Empire of Fat: "44 million American adults are obese. An additional 6 million are 'super obese'; they weigh about 100 pounds more than they should."

Category #5: We Have Become Accustomed to Fat

thayer2232 — 2015-02-25 19:04:43 UTC

Category #7: Solutions

potter9628 — 2015-02-25 19:05:30 UTC

"While limiting fast-food restaurants isn't a solution in itself, it's an important piece of the puzzle," said Mark Vallianatos, director of the Center for Food and Justice at Occidental College.

Category #1: Fast Food is Growing (in every way)

thayer2232 — 2015-02-25 19:06:38 UTC

Uncle McDonald: "McDonald's Deutschland, Inc., is by far the biggest restaurant company in Germany today, more than twice as large as the nearest competitor."

Category #7: Solutions

potter9628 — 2015-02-26 01:22:43 UTC

The four strategies are: 1. Advance school policies to make healthier food more available in schools and reduce the availability and promotion of unhealthy foods like fast food, soda and candy. 2. Restrict the places where fast food corporations can operate through the use of zoning as well as other administrative actions to remove fast food from parks, hospitals, government buildings and the areas around schools. 3. Limit kid-targeted marketing of unhealthy products to children, such as toy giveaways and the use of kid-friendly characters. 4. Reduce public subsidies for fast food corporations by ending economic development incentives to fast food outlets or tax breaks for fast food corporations, and require corporations that do get subsidies to offer healthier products.

Category #2: There is a Blind Love for Fast Food

potter9628 — 2015-02-26 01:29:18 UTC

According to the article, "Break the Fast Food Habit", by the online magazine "Experience Life", the ingredients in fast food is not only unhealthy, but addictive.

Category #1: Fast Food is Growing (in every way)

gibson8039 — 2015-02-26 18:33:13 UTC

"The McDonald's Corporation recently used a new phrase to describe its hopes for foreign conquest: "global realization."

Category #6: There are Few That See the Truth

thayer2232 — 2015-02-26 18:34:35 UTC

McLibel: "In 1986 the group(british activists) decided to target McDonalds, later explaining that the company 'epitomises everything we despise: a junk culture , the deadly banality of capitalism."

Obesity Map in Ameica

potter9628 — 2015-02-26 18:35:36 UTC

Darker Colors mean more obese people

Category #6: There are Few That See the Truth

thayer2232 — 2015-02-26 18:36:51 UTC

McLibel: "In a society where food is a source of tremendous national pride, the McDonalds corporation has become and easy target."

Category #3: The World Accepts Fast Food

thayer2232 — 2015-02-26 18:39:39 UTC

McLibel: "A generation ago American embassies and oil companies were the most likely target of overseas demonstrations against "US imerialism. Today fast food restaurants have assumed that symbolic role, with McDonalds a particular favorite."

potter9628 — 2015-02-26 18:51:59 UTC

potter9628 — 2015-02-26 18:55:08 UTC

The Truth of McDonalds

gibson8039 — 2015-02-26 19:03:12 UTC

thayer2232 — 2015-02-26 19:04:37 UTC

potter9628 — 2015-02-27 15:09:50 UTC