Jessica Brandon Fast Food Driven Society In a recent documentary film I’ve seen called‚ “Super-Size Me‚” it was stated that in the past 20-25 years‚ obesity levels in America have doubled. Why you may wonder? Many factors contribute to the way we live in our society today‚ but the main reason for obesity levels being so high is the fast food industry and its effects on everyone it comes in contact with. Anyone who has ever had junk food in their life know its addicting features. Seeing it everywhere
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Healthy Food vs. Burger King Food The Arabic philosopher Ibn Khaldoun once said‚ “A man’s palate can‚ in time‚ become accustomed to anything.” While this French emperor may have had some plight in his battle of Waterloo against the British‚ Germans‚ Belgians‚ Dutch and Prussians‚ he certainly has hit the nail on the head this time. The food industry has progressed in ways that may not be different to the human palate‚ but hopefully remain different to the human conscience. With all the options
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their article‚ “From Tastes Great to Cool: Children’s Food Marketing and the Rise of the Symbolic‚” analyze food marketing strategies on the lives of youth. After conducting research and studying‚ Schor and Ford concluded that the food industry’s advertising is a major cause of unhealthy lifestyles of children. Schor and Ford’s purpose is to educate readers about the harmful impact of food advertising on young consumers. As the title suggests‚ food marketing impacts
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Food insecurity has become a major issue worldwide‚ but I believe that taking care of food insecurity of college campuses should be the focus of our resources. With 15.6 million households suffering from food insecurity it is no surprise that this food epidemic reaches into college campuses and affects the lives of many students (United States Department of Agriculture). College students are working to expand their knowledge and create an environment that is supplemental to succeeding in college
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of thousands of Chicagoans live in what’s known as a food desert. A food desert is in an area of focus that is short on access to fresh meat and produce. These areas are usually over populated with packaged and processed foods‚ which are not always healthy. They also have a significant amount junk that you can easily find in convenience stores and fast food restaurants. What exactly qualifies a neighborhood to be part of a food desert? Food deserts usually have a bunch of blocks without a corner
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issues in our nation. One factor that deserves to be studied more is the phenomenon of food deserts. There are many ways to define a food desert‚ but a common way to define it is as a low-income census tract where a great portion of its residents have low-access to a supermarket or a large grocery store. This phenomenon occurs nationwide and is an issue that should be acknowledged and dealt with. Currently however‚ food deserts is a phenomenon that has yet to gain the proper acknowledge for the threatening
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spend vast amounts of their money on food and a significant percentage of that money is spent on low-nutrition foods such as fast foods and processed foods. Being the cash cow that it is‚ the capitalist food system has provided the opportunity for corporations to profit numerous types of junk foods (fast & processed foods containing high sugar‚ salt‚ fat). According to Robert Albritton’s (2009:90) “Let Them Eat Junk‚” he argues that “the consumption of junk foods
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A food system is a way to feed people‚ where the whole system is interconnected with the production‚ the processing‚ the distribution‚ the access‚ the utilization‚ the recycling‚ the composting and the disposal of food. I believe no one will deny that the current food system is totally inadequate. The American people have become so accustomed to eating pre-packaged‚ precooked food that to take a little extra time to prepare home-cooked‚ quality meals seems a waste of time and money. While this
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What is food? That seems like a relatively easy question. A question that actually is not as simplified as we would think. Where do food-like substitutes and chemically-enhanced flavors fit into the equation? We consume food as a necessity to survive‚ yet are we slowly killing ourselves by doing so? Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser both offer us information that assists in answering the questions at hand. Each journalist offers us their views on how food modification affect our lives. As each
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first on the particular moral ground gained in some Christian communities from particular diets such as the Weigh Down Diet as compared the ethics and politics of the Slow Food movement in the United States. These two examples‚ while not always interconnected‚ illustrate how US-Americans explicitly and implicitly understands food and eating as inherently moral and political activities‚ through which one gains higher moral ground through controlling and maintaining individual physical bodies and/or
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