In Michelle Chen’s article, “Five Myths About Fast-Food Work” she talks about misconceptions associated with people who work at a fast food restaurant. The first issue Chen addresses is the idea that only teenagers work fast food for little to nothing. However, Chen explains that the majority of workers are around twenty years old and some are single parents that are trying to provide for their families. The Next misconception associated with fast-food is the idea that workers can eventually work their way up to owning their own franchise. Chen explains that is highly unlikely because most of the employees are earning minimum wage or close to minimum wage and to start up their own business of the franchise they would need around $750,000. Chen’s…
We all know that fast food in general is bad for our well being. I mean, foods proccessed with tons of cooking oil can't be healthy. However we still always have that as Plan B when it comes to our lack of nutrition. Some say its inexpensive, while others say it's just a place where over-cooked and over-priced food meet. In this book Eric Schlosser explains the gruesome ways behind the scenes of the fast food industry. Some just all too hard to take in, especially considering I'm really craving a burger right now.…
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the biblical values that are displayed by Chick-Fil-A Inc., which are value-based leadership, social responsibility, and stewardship. These values are not only displayed within the organization, but are also present in the communities in which operates, as well as other businesses that are associated with Chick-Fil-A, such as it?s suppliers. Chick-Fil-A has included these values in it?s corporate culture and philosophy from the founding it?s…
The Purpose of this essay is to inform the consumers and the U.S Department of Health and Human Services the negative effects of the fast food industry. Eric Schlosser wrote the book “Chew on This” in 2006, to open oblivious people eyes and show them the truth about the fast food industry. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services should know how the fast food industries has a negative impact towards the community. They manipulate kids by using advertisements, violating animal rights and their is human health concerns we should be aware of.…
I) Introduction: Fast Food Nation is a book in which Eric Schlosser did not hold any detail back. His ideas are very much similar to Hank Cardello who expressed his feelings in his best seller Stuffed and a article labeled Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. All of these topics touch upon the problem of obesity, low wages, and unethical issues.…
order to survive and maintain a healthy lifestyle, everyone needs Food. How much do we actually know about the food we buy and serve to our families on a daily basis? There has been little awareness and understanding of food in America until the film Food Inc., which helps show us how our food is produced, packaged and sold in our native stores. Our nation’s food supply is being controlled by a few amounts of corporations that often put their income ahead of customer health. It’s time that the truth is heard about what we are putting into our bodies, and what is being hidden from us by the food industry.…
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser explains the historical growth of fast food chain and how they succeeded in dominating the industry for decades nows. Schlosser talk about many netriouse techniques use to lure children and other simple minded american to be addicted to fast food, like a drug. He uses success stories of how near world war two there are many misgiving of food shortages and how fast food industry started to boom in that decade due to their convenience. Furthermore, the author elaborate more on how many people drop their educational career and became successful through these endeavors. One main controversial question that come up in this novel is how fast food is the solution to many economic issues. The point raised make…
When I was in elementary school I remember when I used to go one the lunch line and the lunch ladies would serve us our lunches then we would get to buy snacks like different types of chips, ice cream, cookies, and chocolate bars. As I grew older it was always the same but there were more snacks and different types of drinks so instead of milk you could Capri-suns, Gatorade, Snapple’s and sodas. The one year out of nowhere there were no more sodas and all the chips where baked instead…
Fast food workers at McDonald’s want their wage to be raised to fifteen dollars an hour. The workers go on strike and protest for these wages and McDonald’s is slowly giving into their preposterous task. President Barack Obama has signed laws to raise wages by 2020, him and seventeen other states have passed laws to raise the wage by that year too. The lowest minimum wages in the country right now are in Georgia and Wyoming at a whopping five dollars and fifteen cents an hour. Let us be honest, a fast food job is not a hard job at all, really the only thing difficult would have to be dealing with the occasional rude customer. Many other minimum wage jobs do not require much skill at all, it is not worth the fifteen dollars that they keep asking for. Many laboring jobs such as an electrician and plumbers make around thirteen dollars an hour including health benefits, with a job that is obviously much harder than flipping burgers to the extent that the two are not nearly comparable. Blue collar workers, such as plumbers, mechanics, or construction workers electricians, have to get down and dirty and do what others would not do to make thirteen an hour. Although, this does not apply to all plumbers and electricians because their wages start to increase. So why should a worker restocking shelves and scanning groceries deserve fifteen dollars an hour? Many workers who are for raising the wage are workers who have to support a family on a decently low…
Eric Schlosser is the author who has written about the fast food industry and he presents many of his findings in the book "Fast Food Nation". However, his book is not merely an expose of the fast food industry but is even more a consideration of how the fast food industry has shaped and defined American society in America and for other nations as America exports its fast food culture to others. Schlosser describes a great deal of American culture to the fast food mentality, and he finds that globalization is taking the fast food culture around the world at a rapid rate. Schlosser addresses a number of specific issues related to food production and distribution. He connects the social order of a society to the kind of food it eats and the way it eats that food, with American society very much defined by the fast food culture that has developed. Schlosser tends to represent the theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system, as can be seen from how he connects fast food to other social processes and institutions.…
When it comes to keeping the human body, nutrition is the most essential part of everyone’s life. If people do not have full control, it will affect the way they will be in the future. Any change to someone's diet will change their body in the long run, whether it be positive or negative. It is quite apparent, especially in America, that the common person’s nutrition has gone down hill. Since the 1980s, the rate of obesity has inflated double the amount for adults and triple for children (“Obesity” p. 1). Shockingly, America spends more on fast food than on college education, computers, software and cars combined. In fact, in 2005, Americans spent one hundred thirty four billion dollars on fast food alone. In the ‘70s, America only spent six billion (Schlosser p. 10). I am not one to blame McDonalds for the drastic rise of poor nutrition. There are obviously other reasons why. I mainly blame the misinformation and myths that the general public has been told. The reason why that people are more unhealthy now than in the past is…
In my opinion, the way the fast food industry runs their businesses is primarily self-interested, they have changed the common “minimum wage job” to their own industry, with a monopoly of fast food chains down every street. I am of course also speaking of their obvious preference for inexperienced workers. In which case, their employees get taught to do one job, so therefore get paid less. “Teenagers have been the perfect candidates for these jobs, not only because they are less expensive to hire than adults, but also because their youthful inexperience makes them easier to control” (68). Schlosser explains how the fast food industry has become an easy job for anyone without experience. Changing our culture of “minimum wage” from pumping gas back in the 1950s to flipping burgers now in present day.…
More than half the teenagers now and days just have their minds put into money to either afford what they want or help out their parents. Jill Padgett, community school coordinator, from “The Des Moines Register”, states, “We have students who are working to support themselves, students who are working to support their families, and then we have students who are just looking for experience,”. These are the teenagers who see the benefit of a task that needs to be implied, they see how important it is to get paid more than the minimum wage in order to be able to help out and still have money. The “Des Moines” says, “The convenience store chain this year raised its starting pay for part-time clerks to $10 per hour. Bonuses kick in after six months. Which means that even a noteable higher minimum wage would have little effect. Mercer from “Des Moines” said, “I assisted 200 to 250 students this spring, and about 50 percent were trying to pay for daily necessities.…
The latter half of the 20th century brought the birth of many household fast food names. McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, etc. have all become common names across the country. Since then, they have helped to create the unhealthiest, most fast food obsessed nation in American history. From the typical suburban family, to the businessmen of Manhattan, fast food has provided the chance to eat half-decent tasting food, even while wrapped up in the busy lives most Americans live. The content and nutritional values are not given a second…
As we know, most Americans in the world are obese and overweight. Now, we can not entirely fix the problem of obesity, but we can encourage others to follow the path of living a healthy lifestyle. It is known that people in America spend more money on dining than on groceries. Me, being a personal fan of food, love to eat out but there is so many restaurants that sell unhealthy and fatty foods that aren't good for you. We can start with making our community a better place by replacing most of the unhealthy food options with healthier ones in restaurants.…