How Fast Food Industry Changed Eating Habits & Animal Care.

HowFast Food Industry Changed Eating Habits & Animal Care. Velasquez, Daniela Period 4, English 11/30/10

What is Fast Food • Fast Food restaurants are restaurants that are quick, inexpensive ,and affordable. • Fast food restaurants mostly sell burgers, French fries, milkshakes, pizza, fried chicken, soda (etc.)

History of Fast Food • At the turn of the 20th century most American families ate at home. • By the 1940’s, America was going through changes; new roads crisscrossed the country, a large number of people owned cars and had more free time. • Restaurants called drive-ins took advantage of this “new” American lifestyle; people could drive up the restaurant and park, and servers who were called car hops wpuld take orders and bring burgers fries, and shakes right tot the customers cars.

The Beginning of Fast Food • Fast food at first was a brilliant idea for the middle and lower class who couldn’t afford to go out to eat. • In addition, most women weren’t having the same time they did before because of the full time job they had leaving them no time to cook.

The Booming Success of Fast Food • The success started in 1950’s and 1960’s. • Fast food restaurants in the united states jumped from about 70,000 in 1970 to 186,000 in 2001. • Most fast food restaurants had drive through windows so that people who didn’t have time to go inside to eat could take the food home. • The more changes that fast food restaurants were making the bigger and bigger profits for the companies. • In 1970’s, Americans spent $6 billion on fast food. By 2005, Americans were spending MORE than $136 billion per year on fast food.

Selling Fast Food to You • Most Fast Food restaurants have many ways for a customer to come in and buy their meals. For example Mc. Donald's has the “Happy Meals” available for the kids under 10; offering the choices of burgers or chicken nuggets besides it comes a toy from popular movies or TV shows. • Fast food restaurants have many ads and commercials wasting millions of dollars each year. • In the ads they try to catch your attention with clowns and fun characters from your favorite movies/TV shows. • Most of them are ads that shows picture of burgers, fries, shakes and other foods that they sell look delicious.

Selling Fast Food to You The picture to the left shows how fast food companies make money by convincing their customers through ads, making their logo signature “the only way to beat it is to eats it” In addition, scientist has proven the color red is appealing to the human eye making their taste buds crazed for food. That why most restaurants use the color red for advertisement. apimages.com

Daily Food Eating With Children • Children eat five times more fast food today than they did in 1970. • Every single day one out of three young people aged four to nineteen eats fast food. • 20% of children six through up were overweight in 2003-2004, three times more than late 70’s.

Through the Years • Before 1994, only 5 percent of children were diagnose with type 2 diabetes, but since there are more overweight kids today, 30-50 percent have type 2. • In 1991 half of the U.S. students took P.E. class everyday, but in 2003 only 28 percent took daily gym class. • In addition, now a days more children 8-18 are watching TV which makes them want to eat foods that aren’t good for them.

Disease's with Fast Food • Fast food may diagnose you with being overweight or either obese. • Fast food causes type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the cells of the body can’t insulin properly. If you don’t take any action, diabetes can lead to heart disease, blindness, stroke, or amputation (surgical removal of a body part, such as a foot) • Studiesshown that high diets and obesity can lead to cancer’s such as: breast, colon, esophageal, kidney. • High Cholesterol: too much fatty cholesterol in the blood can lead to heart dieses and strokes.

Disease's with Fast Food • Overweight people are more likely to get asthma than average weight. Asthma causes the airways to become narrowed/blocked, making difficult to breathe. The picture to the left shows a patient checking their blood sugar. (diabetes) apimages.com

Animal Cruelty • Fast food restaurants are no longer on farms with right treatment towards animals, now a days animals are being slaughtered and mistreated at factories where they’re converted into food. • PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have been targeted KFC for several years, because they haven’t changed the way they treat animals. • PETA has proof/evidence on how men workers have treated the animals that we call food. • There are videos where some men hang the chickens upside down cut their heads, throw them like they're nothing.

Animal Cruelty Cont’d • PETA protesters all over the world have tried to have strikes outside their restaurants trying to get the drivers attention or any media press. • Many protesters go outside KFC restaurants holding posters most likely saying “KFC tortures chicks” a lot of protesters are willing to go nude, lock themselves in cages, or wear bikini’s in freezing temperatures.

World Wide Protest The picture below shows a woman in Taiwan protesting inside a KFC restaurant, nude with the poster over her saying “Naked Truth: KFC tortures chicks” The picture above shows women in South Korea are willing to wear golden bikini’s with signs saying “KFC tortures chicks”

Bibliography • Russell, Eric. "Protesters Give Very Cold Shoulders to KFC." Http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=9&hid=17&sid=926fb9c0-044b-49af-8205-37dd73f53ff4%40sessionmgr4&bdata=JnNpdGU9c3JjLWxpdmU%3d#db=nfh&AN=2W62W63936519534#db=nfh&AN=2W62W63936519534. Student Research Center. Web. • Garrett, Ryan. "PETA Members Turn Heads with KFC Protest." Http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=12&hid=17&sid=926fb9c0-044b-49af-8205-37dd73f53ff4%40sessionmgr4&bdata=JnNpdGU9c3JjLWxpdmU%3d#db=nfh&AN=2W62W6202090804#db=nfh&AN=2W62W6202090804#db=nfh&AN=2W62W6202090804. Web. • Watson, Stephanie “What's in Your Food? Recipe For Disaster Fast Food” New York: The Rosen Publishing Group Inc, 2008.

How Fast Food Industry Changed Eating Habits & Animal Care.