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Fast Food Nation Epilogue: Have It Your Way

Fast Food Nation Epilogue: Have It Your Way. By: Logan Robinson. Raising Cattle the Healthy Way. Dale Lasaster has a ranch of bulls in Matheson Colorado

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Fast Food Nation Epilogue: Have It Your Way

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  1. Fast Food NationEpilogue: Have It Your Way By: Logan Robinson

  2. Raising Cattle the Healthy Way • Dale Lasaster has a ranch of bulls in Matheson Colorado • He does not do anything at all to them other than give them food. He lets them roam the ranch eating grass and Lasater does not use hormones, steroids, or anti-biotics. • He thinks that nature raises cattle healthier than if humans try to interfere • Set up Lasater Grasslands Beef company to sell organic, free range, grass-fed cattle

  3. Red Top • Family restaurant ran by Rich Conway in Colorado Springs • Operates on an old fashioned style • They make everything such as the meat and all food is fresh • Cost a little more but gets more business than the half empty Wendy’s across the street • The Conway family wants to expand the restaurants

  4. In-N-Out Burger Restaurant • 1948 the McDonald brothers introduced the Speedee Service System • Harry and Ester Synder opened up their first In-N-Out Burger Restaurant between L.A. and Palm Springs • It was the Nations first drive through hamburger stand • Workers made high wages (manager-$80,000 a year)

  5. Fast Food is Harmful to Society • Low prices of fast food do not reflect the real cost it has on society • Annual cost of obesity is now twice as large as the total revenues for fast food industries • There needs to be a campaign to make the chains to minimize their harmful effects • Fast food chains should not direct advertisements towards little kids

  6. Having A Safer Work Place • USDA is supposed to promote US agriculture and police it • FDA is also a food safety agency • OSHA makes rules for the work place and can fine or shut down companies for not following the rules • These organizations all protect consumers and the workers

  7. When Employers have to much Power Over the Workers • Labor unions can cause inefficiencies when they have to much power, but without the labor unions corporations can violate labor laws with impunity • Illegal immigrants are protected by labor unions. They keep the immigrants from getting singled out as being weak because they don’t have many legal rights.

  8. Veggie Libel Laws • Large agribusiness firms strife criticism of their policy • The laws were passed in 13 states • The laws make it illegal to criticize agriculture commodities in a manner inconsistent with “reasonable” scientific evidence • This could cause people to go to jail for criticizing things such as ground beef

  9. Major Fast Food Chains have Power Over Their Suppliers • Fast Food corporations could help change work safety for employees of their suppliers • They could also demand higher wages for workers of their suppliers • Helping out the supplier’s workers would not make hardly any difference to the major food chains such as McDonald’s • Helping wouldn’t raise menu prices much if anything at all

  10. Fast Food Executives • They aren’t bad people, they are business men • Consumers can get healthier food if they stop buying the unhealthy food • The executives will do whatever it takes to make money • A refusal to buy fast food is heard over words talking about how unhealthy it is • You can make your own decisions on what to eat

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