Fast Food Nation Reading Part Two

Fries is a main part of the fast food culture. But not many people actually know about it. To me fries do not taste that good. However back in the 1960s fries were greatly appreciated. It was only benefiting the fast food companies because the French fries that they were selling were frozen. These French fries were made by a man named John Richard Simplot. What he developed was the same exact flavor for French fries except it was frozen making it able to be sold at different places. Fast food companies saved a lot of money selling these cheaper fries that taste relatively the same. All the fast food companies started competing on which has to cheapest and best tasting fries after that. Now McDonald is not the only one serving frozen fries.

Meat in the fast food companies were also very bad. An example is the McDonald McNugget. It is the breaded chicken breast. These were VERY bad for you because it was cooked in beef oil and the chicken that produced those breast were genetically enhanced. What they did to the chicken was enhance them with chemicals that made them lay more eggs. After being to old to lay anymore eggs the enhance their breast and then use them for McNuggets.

Slaughter houses were also created for efficiency of killing cows and extracting the meat from it. However that is a dangerous job. Killing the cows was just not bad enough and now the working conditions are even worse. They have to work in freezing temperature to keep the meat as fresh as possible. All of the employees were also not getting enough health care and treatment. When they injury or lose a body part they receive money and that's it. It is also relatively not that much at that time too. Their hourly wage is also one third the average amount a normal employee. Many of the slaughter house workers had a family to support and if they get injured they would still have to go to work. The doctors at the factory does not care and all they would say is "it is a pulled muscle". When in fact it is something much worse.

Some things frighten me even more that is know that you don't know what is exactly in your meat patties or whatever you are eating. There are many cases where someone got sick of eating meat and to later find out that it was infected with some kind of disease.