Aside from saying - WHY? When thinking about Fast Food's role in our lives ... One has only to consider the spiralling rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and so on, and the proliferation of fast food outlets along almost every street and highway across the land ... Can we NOT see the interconnectedness of these things????
If you eat crap day after day after day ... you're gonna get sick ... and you're gonna have big health problems ... Yet, our media is filled with advertisements for dozens and dozens of these restaurants (I dare to use that word - perhaps 'feed outlets' is more appropriate) ... and our children are exposed over and over to those commericals that tell them to overeat on the crap that they offer ... It's sad ... It's disgusting ... It's also symptomatic of what is wrong with our culture ... It's the ME generation running wild ...
I found a quotation from a book on Fast Food (the sequel to Fast Food Nation) entitled Chew on This ... The author Schlosser has a point. Dare we listen??
Meals were more then way to fill your belly. They were a way to enjoy conversation, family and friendship. They weren't something rushed and soon forgotten. They were meant to bring people together ...
Such meals can happen at home ... in a restaurant where we linger over the food ... or anywhere else we remember the reason is not to consume fuel, but to feed our minds, our bodies AND our souls ... Instead of supersizing those fries, maybe we need to supersize the conversation we share over the meal ...
It's a good place to begin ...
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