Daniel Velasquez
Eng 214
9/10/14
Fast Food Regulations
Fast food is cheap quick and can fill
you up but leaves you wanting more of that same great taste. Well the
reason fast food is so cheap and quick is because its loaded with
preservatives and chemicals that cut the costs of preparing fresh
healthy food. The reason the food leaves you wanting more of the same
great taste is because of the amount of MSG packed into the foods,
which tells your brain to keep the taste coming even though you've
already eaten too much. Fast food restaurants should be shut down. Or
at least the FDA should step in and regulate the ingredients and
chemicals being put into the food that so many of our population
indulges in.
because of the populations dwindling
need for fitness and deteriorating health due to the ease of
transportation and the growing lack of self regulation our society is
becoming fatter and fatter each year part of this is due to genes,
and day jobs that require you to sit at your desk for a full 12 hour
shift seven days a week. But I strongly believe that a leading factor
in the populations weight gain is due to the fast food industry. An
industry that prays on the poor and contributes to the devolution of
our entire species should be changed or completely taken out of
society all together.
Im not saying that it should not be up
to any person to do whatever they would like to with their bodies,
and that the
government should regulate our diets, but I do believe that the food
industry should keep to strictly selling food that is edible.
Azodicarbonamide was recently removed from the ingredients used to
make the bread for sandwiches at Subway.According to the Centers for
Science in the Public Interest the chemical is used to make the
soles. One of the breakdown products of Azodicarbonamide is a
recognized carcinogen. Food should only have
additives and ingredients that you could find in an average humans
kitchen pantry. Since food is an absolute necessity it should be an
industry that helps to better the population, not decay it.
I have never understood why the worlds
most unhealthy food is the food that is most easily accessible to
most people in every country in the world. But in a world where time
is money and taco bell is fast and cheap its really the right way to
go, the human body can take one for the team it's not like its going
to kill you right? According to the Canadian Journal of Public
Health, “regions high in fast food restaurant density are 2.52
times more likely to be extremely high in all-cause mortality.”
This statistic would be more even if they had added deaths due to
cardiovascular related diseases, because fast food is an enormous
factor contributing to heart and artery problems.
If the FDA would make sure that all
restaurants and food dispensaries were held to higher standards, and
we as a society moved towards eating healthier more sustainable foods
human evolution would no longer be at a standstill. I look forward to
the day when I can go into a fast food restaurant and order something
that doesnt make me feel lethargic and dirty after eating.
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