Benchmark+Essay

Is it the fast food company’s fault to blame or is it your own fault that so many people in America are obese? Is it you that is eating fast food everyday and blaming the company’s? In this essay I will be explaining these topics plus what the primary causes of obesity in America, personal experiences, and my own opinion.

When you think of fast food dose unhealthy come to mind? Farm Bureau Federation’s food is going to the fast food companies. “The alliance plans to serve as a resource to food companies.” Why is healthy farm food going straight to food companies and not the grocery store or the farmers market? Farmers should get more money for their food. Fast food places don’t want people to think about what they’re eating. The cheapness of today’s industrial food is an illusion. You’re not really paying $2.45 for a burger; you’re paying to get fat. The wealthy will always eat well. “They are exposed to the worst toxic chemicals on the job. They are sold the unhealthiest foods and can least afford the medical problems the result.”

Fast food companies will always target children! Fast food branding makes food more appetizing to children. “In most cases children said they tasted a difference between the two meals, and they overwhelmingly preferred the McDonalds-branding foods.” Commercial influence; It’s really not that surprising how branding works. I watch TV and when the commercials come on TV I always see a fast food commercial, every single time. Whether its McDonalds or Burger King or Pizza Hut, a fast food commercial will pop up. If it makes parents fight with their kids on where to go for lunch then don’t ask them.