ADVANCED PLACEMENT HUMAN GEOGRAPHY READING ASSIGNMENT – FAST FOOD NATION INTRODUCTION to Fast Food Nation (Amazon.com excerpt) On any given day‚ one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant‚ without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American‚ and harmless‚ as apple pie. But the industry ’s drive for consolidation‚ homogenization‚ and speed has radically transformed America ’s diet
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Jennifer Rose June 28‚ 2013 Text Analysis (Project & Paper 1) For The Love of Junk Food Everybody have an uncontrollable weakness to a certain type of junk food. That desirable craving you have to satisfy right then and there. Being able to binge once you see a platter or buffet table with all the junk food in the world‚ we just don’t like the idea of eating increments at a time. We as a society like the idea of a quick cheap fix whenever hunger comes over us. Instead of either taking
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Food deserts are places where at least 500 people or a third of the population reside more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store — according to the CDC‚ “Food deserts are areas that lack access to affordable fruits‚ vegetables‚ whole grains‚ low-fat milk‚ and other foods that make up the full range of a healthy diet” (CDC). Furthermore‚ these food-deprived areas may exist in both rural or urban areas‚ but only in locations where there are geographic or socio-economic problems.
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Cook/Chill Centralized Food Service in Corrections By Louise E. Mathews‚ Chief of Food Services‚ San Diego County‚ California‚ Sheriffs Department capacity of 2‚345. In 1989‚ these facilities were holding up to 4‚500 inmates-and the numbers were climbing-giving San Diego the dubious distinction of being the most overcrowded system in the country. To determine more effective ways of handling the increasing number of inmates‚ the county commissioned two external feasibility studies (1985 and 1989)
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Background of the Study Fast food industry has been in existence for the past years. The growing popularity of the industry gave way for many businessmen to put up many branches or chains in different parts of the country. This leads to the birth of fast food chains‚ by which Jollibee‚ McDonalds‚ KFC‚ Mang Inasal‚ Chowking‚ WOK Express and Greenwich are few examples. People prefer to go into fast food chains not just because of their food preference but because they serve their customer in a
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Healthy Food vs. Burger King Food The Arabic philosopher Ibn Khaldoun once said‚ “A man’s palate can‚ in time‚ become accustomed to anything.” While this French emperor may have had some plight in his battle of Waterloo against the British‚ Germans‚ Belgians‚ Dutch and Prussians‚ he certainly has hit the nail on the head this time. The food industry has progressed in ways that may not be different to the human palate‚ but hopefully remain different to the human conscience. With all the options
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issues in our nation. One factor that deserves to be studied more is the phenomenon of food deserts. There are many ways to define a food desert‚ but a common way to define it is as a low-income census tract where a great portion of its residents have low-access to a supermarket or a large grocery store. This phenomenon occurs nationwide and is an issue that should be acknowledged and dealt with. Currently however‚ food deserts is a phenomenon that has yet to gain the proper acknowledge for the threatening
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Analysis Project Submitted on: 13th of March 2015 By: Stark Li 700435 Word Count Submitted to: Thomas Gray Food Styling CONTENT Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Main Body ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-6 Fast food industry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-5 Fine dining industry ----
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children aged 4 to 19 eat fast food on a daily basis. Over the course of a year this is likely to result in a child gaining six extra pounds every year. In a research experiment done by Pediatrics‚ 6‚212 children and adolescents ages 4 to 19 years old were examined to find out some information about fast food. After interviewing the participants in the experiment‚ it was discovered that on a given day 30.3% of the total sample have reported to have eaten fast food. Fast-food consumption was prevalent
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text‚ Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food‚ Eric Schlosser‚ the author‚ explains the effects of fast food restaurants on the small town of Martinsburg‚ West Virginia. Surprisingly‚ some effects were good‚ but others were not so good. The new fast food restaurants made Martinsburg turn from a quiet town‚ into a large‚ busy town. Though fast food restaurants provide a lot of jobs‚ it does not pay much. Fast food restaurants often mistreat their animals‚ but they do use real
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