1. The fast food workforce has about two-thirds of teenagers working for their industry. The reason that a teenager is the ideal applicants is because it benefits the fast food restaurant to have their labor costs at a minimum. Teenagers are not only given a low-working-wage but, “Workers were forced to wait until things got busy at a restaurant before starting their shifts” (Schlosser 75). This caused teenagers to be exhausted at the end of the day making them hate their job and wanting to desperately quit their job because of how they are disrespected even by the customers. It an advantage for a teenager to have the opportunity to work and to start being responsible, but it causes them to drop out of school. Now they spend most of their …show more content…
Fast food marketing is targeted at children and gets them in the habit of eating fast food from a young age. Most American parents are already in the habit of eating fast food from a young age which became a habit pass down to their children. The food chains have caused “The obesity epidemic that began in the United States during the late 1970s is now spreading to the rest of the world, with fast food as one of its vectors” (Schlosser 242). Before opening fast food chains obesity of children around the world was lower compare to now which are six million children being “super-obese.” Fast food advertisement targets children because they bring in more consumers by bringing in their grandparents and parents. Schools that contract fast foods onto their campus are because “The district would never have sought advertising, its deputy superintendent told the Houston Chronicle, “if it weren’t for the acute needs for funds” (Schlosser52). Schools don’t have responsibility of children obesity, it the fast food chains that use schools financially in need to further advertise their food. Parents and schools are being used by fast food chains in order to take children to their …show more content…
Today’s American packing industries have their cattle’s in poor condition and cause an unforgettable smell where they are located at. Schlosser pointed out “The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, combination of live animals, manure, and dead animal being rendered into dog food” (Schlosser149). ConAgra feedlots are huge that can hold up to one thousand cattle. This means that cows stand closely to each other that they look like a “sea of cattle” (Schlosser150). Cows are no longer fed with grass instead they are fed with grain which helps them get fatter before they get sold off. Meat packing industries also give their workers minimum wages which use to be one of the highest paying jobs. Upton Sinclair explained how these industries practices can endangered “the health of consumers: the routine slaughter of diseased animals, the use of chemicals such as borax and glycerine to disguise the smell of spoiled beef, the deliberate mislabeling of canned meat, the tendency of workers to urinate and defecate on the kill floor” (Schlosser204). Meat industries are putting their consumers’ health in risk because of cattle’s poor