Mcdonald's Greed In The Food Industry

As a business owner the most important thing to you is profits and they’re willing to do almost anything to increase their profits. Corporate greed does explain the state of the food industry and the poor health of an increasing percentage of Americans more than any other issue. Companies are always trying to make as much money while spending the least amount possible. This became a major just in the mid to late 1900s when the meat industry began to cut back on their expenses to increase profit. The Iowa Beef Packers start the change in the meat packing industry. They began moving their slaughter houses away from the cities, and unionists, and into rural communities. They introduced assembly lines into the meat packing process thereby deskilling the job which made it possible for them to hire unskilled workers with small wages. Most of these unskilled workers were immigrants who needed this job to feed their families so they wouldn’t go against their boss due the possibility of getting fired. With the introduction go the assembly lines the workers were expected to work even faster which lead to an increase in the number of on job injuries. Many huge companies such as McDonalds uses very select places to buy the meat that they send all over the nation because they many all of their stores to sell the same exact meat. Due to this many diseases such as E. coli are able to infect many people all over the nation at the same time. By these huge companies using only select number of slaughter houses, it also limits the number of
Americans have always wanted to cheapest of everything and are always trying to spend as little possible on goods. So when these companies began to make these cuts and increasing production of cheaper goods, more and more Americans began to by these