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Fast Food Is Inexpensive, Convenient, And It Tastes Good. I'm All In Favor Of That. My Problem Is How Heavily Processed It Is - How Full Of Salt, Fat, And Sugar It Is.

A Generation Ago, Three-quarters Of The Money Used To Buy Food In The United States Was Spent To Prepare Meals At Home. Today About Half Of The Money Used To Buy Food Is Spent At Restaurants--mainly At Fast Food Restaurants.

I Think For Real Change To Happen, It's Going To Have To Come From The Kids, The Community, The Teachers, The Parents.

The Federal Government Has More Power To Recall A Defective Stuffed Animal Who's Little Glass Eye May Fall Off Than To Recall Contaminated Ground Beef That Could Sicken Or Even Kill Hundreds If Not Thousands Of People. The Meat-packing Industry Is So Powerful That It's Managed To Prevent The Government From Having This Basic Power Of Recalling A Defective Product.

Future Historians, I Hope, Will Consider The American Fast Food Industry A Relic Of The Twentieth Century--a Set Of Attitudes, Systems, And Beliefs That Emerged From Postwar Southern California, That Embodied Its Limitless Faith In Technology, That Quickly Spread Across The Globe, Flourished Briefly, And Then Receded, Once Its True Costs Became Clear And Its Thinking Became Obsolete.