http://jhampton.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/51769044/Fast%20Food%20Nation.pdf
In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2001, they spent more than $110 billion.
What people eat (or don’t eat) has always been determined by a
complex interplay of social, economic, and technological forces.
On any given day in the United States about one-quarter of the
adult population visits a fast food restaurant.
In 1968, McDonald’s operated about one thousand restaurants.Today it has about thirty thousand restaurants worldwide
and opens almost two thousand new ones each year.
Farmers and cattle ranchers are losing
their independence, essentially becoming hired hands for the agribusiness giants or being forced off the land. Family farms are now being
replaced by gigantic corporate farms with absentee owners
The fast food chains’ vast purchasing power and their demand for a uniform product have encouraged fundamental changes in how cattle
are raised, slaughtered, and processed into ground beef.
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