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Student’s Name: Alexandra
Student ID: QING21632
Teacher: Lynken Ghose
Due Date: August 27th 2012
Word Count: 1162
Word Count: 979
Student’s Name: Alexandra
Student ID: QING21632
Teacher: Lynken Ghose
Due Date: August 27th 2012
Word Count: 1162
Word Count: 979
Question: Define the idea of “fast food”. How has fast food affected the food industry in China? Has it become a more prevalent or less prevalent force? Would you say its impact has been positive or negative? Please do not offer just a simplistic answer such as – “positive” or “negative”. Offer specific reasons including ethical implications, economic implications, and health effect etc. of fast food.
With the pace of life speeding up, people increasingly depend on fast food. Many people prefer to eat fast food rather than cook by themselves, because fast food is more convenient and time – saving. In my opinion, people should not depend on fast food too much because fast food’s impact has been negative, as fast food has endangered people’s health, family life, traditional culture, and has even caused ecological change to the environment.
Firstly, the safety of fast food ingredients is really worrisome. During the last several years, more and more safety problems of fast food have been exposed by the media. For example, many restaurants add too many preservatives to fast food in order to maintain the freshness of food, or they added varying additives to enrich the taste and look of food. It is really bad for people’s health and many kinds of preservatives and additives are subject to blastomogens, such as tonyred, leavening agent, benzoyl peroxide, and so on. In addition, in order to reduce cost, more and more restaurants choose to use inferior seasonings. For example, industrial salt instead of edible salt is used as seasoning. It is known to us all that the main ingredient of industrial salt is