fast facts from “fast food nation,” by e. schlosser powerpoint by t. saunders
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Fast Facts from“Fast Food Nation,” by E. Schlosser
PowerPoint by T. Saunders
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This year Americans will spend over $110 billion on fast food—
…more than they'll spend on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and
recorded music combined.
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Every day, about one quarter of the total U.S. population eats fast food.
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Roughly 12% of all American workers have worked at McDonald's.
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Children often recognize the McDonald's logo before they recognize their own name.
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American children now get about one quarter of their total vegetable servings….
…in the form of potato chips and french fries.
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The typical teenage boy in the United States now gets about 10% of his daily
calories from soda.
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The rate of obesity among American children has doubled since the late 1970s.
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A fast food soda that sells for $1.29 costs the restaurant about ten cents –
a markup of more than 1200%.
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Hundreds of local slaughterhouses used to supply the United States with beef.
Today, thirteen large slaughterhouses supply most of the nation's beef.
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McDonald's is now the nation's largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes. It is the second largest purchaser of chicken in the
United States.
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A typical, single fast food hamburger contains meat from dozens or even hundreds of cows.
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Chicken McNuggets contain beef additives, while McDonald's french fries derive some of their flavor from "animal products."
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Because fast food is so highly processed, much of its flavor is destroyed.
…so, the tastes of most fast food are manufactured artificially at special chemical
factories in New Jersey.