If you like me you probably have had more fast food than you would like to admit. Fast food is an idea that has taken the world by storm, being able to travel from home to Chicago, to Boise, to Atlanta or now even China and get the same food made you way! Some people blame fast food for America&ap...

If fast food has such a significant impact on our society and economy, it is only natural that it should also have at least some effect on our environment. Presumably, the generalization of fast food in America, and now spreading all over the world, can lead to major negative impacts on our environ...

Food, we all need it and yet so many of us go without it. The reasons we all know; drought, famine, flooding and just not having enough economic resources either as a state or individual to buy food. Populations have risen at a greater rate then which the farmers of that country can provide for them...

Food and Nutrition Cleo Chana Nutrition refers to the study of the way in which the substances in food affect our health. Over the last one hundred years, American diet has changed drastically. It was not uncommon for a ...

Central to the success of McDonald's, as envisioned by Kroc, was that everything would look and taste exactly the same at every location - he was a great believer in uniformity and conformity. Now that has one effect when you're talking about what a restaurant's architecture looks like and...

Prices Not Listed on the Menu In Eric Schlosser's first book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001), through hard facts, witty insight, and meticulous research, he produces a book-length view of how quickly and methodically the fast food business has taken over our...

It's something we have all heard many times, but how often do we stop and really think about what a wasteful people Americans are? With so many advantages over smaller countries, we will often take our plentiful resources for granted. Thus, we become very wasteful; maybe even the most wasteful ...

Welfare is government programs that provide money, medical care, food housing, and other necessities for needy people. People who receive welfare include children, the aged, the blind, the disabled, and others who cannot adequately provide for themselves and their families. Most welfare in the Unite...

Foodborne Illness What is Foodborne Illness? According to a medical dictionary, foodborne illness is an acute gastrointestinal infection caused by consuming food contaminated with pathogenic, bacteria, toxins, viruses, prions or parasites. Such contamination was caused by improper food handl...

"A Larger America" Obesity has been plaguing the American culture for the last two decades. Many factors contribute to this on going problem. The number of over weight Americans has substantially grown with two main contributors to this important problem among Americans. One main contr...

Does this make me look fat? Obesity throughout our nation is growing at an alarmingly high rate and now more than ever are we starting to see the devastating effects that our diets are causing on our health. Eric Schlosser credits most of our major health related issues to the extraordinary ...

Why are Americans getting fat? According to Kelly Brownell, one of the nation's leading obesity experts, one out of two adults and one out of four children are overweight. It's almost abnormal to be normal weight in this society. A survey in 1999 and 2000 shows that more than 30 perc...

Introduction "Ok, ok. Now I don't want to get any of you excited or alarmed but I sow this on TV. This is for real. On the News today it stated that with in a year the new number one killer in America will be high fat/saturated fat." This stated by Conan O' Brien on his show...

Welfare Public assistance, also known as welfare, is not free money. Public assistance benefits many people who have a low income or no means of income at all. The benefits available are based on the level of income for different sized families and in different states. Welfare is also not to...

Making Money vs. American Health Every year more and more Americans are looking to lose weight and are willing to spend whatever it cost to do the trick. Close to $35 billion a year is spent on weight loss aids and the number is increasing every year (Anderson). As one can imagine, organizations...

In "Epilogue: Have it Your Way", a section in the book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser writes that some people are not submitting to the cheap production of meat. He also explains how the meat sold overseas goes through more extensive tests than the United States, to assure that there i...

During my 45 years of life, I have eaten all kinds of food you could probably think of. So after reading "Should You Buy Organic," by Geoffrey Cowley, I'll continue to eat the way I do and continue to try foods that I have yet not tried. There were points on both sides that I agreed...

For hundreds of years, governments have had an interest in regulating food processing to ensure the safety and wholesomeness of the foods consumed by their citizens. The earliest known food law was written in Japan in AD 702. Today several United States government agencies carry out inspections an...

USDA www.usda.gov History: In 1862 Abraham Lincoln founded the US Department of Agriculture, he named it the "people's Department." Dur...

The Great Depression of the 1920's and 1930's began when the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929 after reaching an all-time high on September 3, 1929. Everyone was jubilant and happy before the crash because the 1,500,00 people in America who had invested in shares of companies were ...

Invasion of the Zebra Mussels There has been an incursion into the sovereign territory of the United States of America. The Zebra mussel, an animal much akin to the clam, has colonized nearly every hard surface in the Great Lakes area, and many rivers and streams attached to them. These invade...

After being left with 2 million dollars from my long lost great aunt, I was provided with the capital necessary to begin to develop and market my own product. Having been raised on a small dairy farm in western New York, the only logical product to me was one having to do with the dairy industry. ...

Protists Protists are plant-like, animal–like, or fungi-like organisms with one or more cells (single or multicelluar organisms). Asexual reproduction is common. It occurs by mitosis or binary fission in most species. Sexual reproduction is less common and has not been seen in many protists...

Is Hunting Morally Acceptable? There are many hunters in the United States. The average hunter is a 42 year old, white male. As time goes by, there are fewer places for sportsman to go hunting. A new US Fish and Wildlife survey shows that the number of hunters has declined by 7 percent, to 13 mi...

The upcoming presidential election has provided ample evidence of how politics affects powers in a variety of organizations, and not simply the organizations of the nation directly related to the business of governance. If political power solely determined what occurred behind the closed d...