How Has Mcdonald's Affected Society

McDonald’s has affected society in several ways including the impact to the overall health of Americans. At first, Americans did not care about the nutrition facts or the sanitary of the food they were eating, but soon started to concern themselves with what was really inside of this fast food. Previously McDonald’s did not have any nutrition facts available in the physical restaurant, only on the internet. McDonald’s did this to hide the reality that their food was not as good as they advertised. Some unique people took it to themselves to bring awareness to this issue so it could be resolved. Morgan Spurlock is a filmmaker who made the movie Super Size Me in an effort to make it known that McDonald’s can be harmful to the human body if eaten too often. Morgan Spurlock ate McDonald’s for thirty days straight for every meal. “Spurlock had gained 24.5 pounds, and his cholesterol level had climbed by sixty-five points” (“Controversies Related to McDonald’s Nutrition and Labor Practices”). Morgan sacrificed his own health permanently in order to protect the health of other citizens. After the movie became very popular, McDonald’s eventually did make some changes.
McDonald’s continued to receive negative publicity and needed to bring more nutritional meals to
At first, Ronald McDonald was supposed to be a fun mascot for the company, but they soon realized that Ronald McDonald could be used as a clever advertisement tactic. Bruce Horovitz said, “In the past three years, Ronald McDonald has become more a symbol for botched marketing schemes than fast-food finesse”(Horvitz). McDonald’s pushed many television advertisements that showed Ronald telling kids to come to the restaurant to bring in more customers. McDonald’s took advantage of the situation by making Ronald the face of the company, and to seem more inviting towards kids, again just to make money from the less