After reading Fast Food Nation, my eyes were opened to a cruel, unseen industry that not only very powerful, but very dangerous as well. The book touches on the industry itself, but also digs into the processes by which the food is actually created. Some facts, such as human meat being accidentally ground and mixed into the final meat product, are extremely disturbing. The cruel and inhumane ways the animals are treated for our benefit is also slightly appalling, considering there are more humane ways of going about the process. Also, the idea that the majority of the food is mainly artificial flavoring is hard to swallow.
That being said, my fast food habits have not and probably will not change despite learning what I did from this book. I don't eat fast food extremely often, but I feel as though I get enough exercise and I track my eating habits well enough to combat the nasty effects it may have on my body. But it will definitely stick in the back of my mind the next time I stop for a burger.
Really? Human meat? that is gross...
ReplyDeleteI think it's good you dont eat fast food most of the time, food taists way better homemade, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised to hear that you dont eat fast food as much as we all do. That is really good.
ReplyDeleteUmm… I don’t remember reading about human meat, but that will definitely change my fast food perspective.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember exactly what page it was on, but I'm pretty sure there was a part about how when workers lose body parts in the grinders, it remains in the meat and is processed. It's gross.
ReplyDeleteI don't think they are very loose on human parts going into the food anymore that was more back then, but I wouldn't say it possibly hasn't happened within the past decade. Meat is so good but so gross at the same time. I wish I knew exactly where the meat I was eating at the time came from.
ReplyDeletevery well written, i enjoyed your truth.
ReplyDeleteYeah the whole processing chapter was very disturbing..but thats good that you dont eat it so often..
ReplyDeleteThe fast food industry are like a bunch of gangsters robbing people of their money.
ReplyDeleteKnowledge is power. at least you know what your eating when you eat it.
ReplyDeleteThe facts are gross. Haha that's funny that you'll think of the book every time you eat fast food.
ReplyDeleteyeah, about the 'human meat'... yup, that was somewhere in the book.. LOL
ReplyDeleteand hey, you already said that you do not eat much fast food anyway, so it isn't a big deal. *shrugs shoulders :P
we are what we eat. lol
ReplyDeleteYou are hilarious! I was convinced you were not going to try fast food anymore.
ReplyDeletehuman meat ??? ... im already too paranoid that the fast food employees spit in my food.
ReplyDeleteyeah i remember the human meat thing that was gross
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