So far Eric Schlosser's novel, Fast Food Nation, focuses on how fast food companies target kids as their sole customers in order to trap them and their parents as "full-time" customers. Eric demonstrates how these companies attempt to trap kids into getting their parents to buy them McDonald's or whatever fast food restaurant it may be at a young age. He gives examples of this by how fast food restaurants try and give toys with kid's meals or build play grounds so as to attract kid's to their restaurants’ and with them their parents. He states their purpose is to get them young so that they will become life customers. Eric also shows how they use advertisements more and more to attract kid's and how fast food companies spend a lot of research figuring out what get's kid's going or what they like. Then he takes readers "behind the scenes" of fast food restaurants in order to show how it’s like to be an employee and how most employees are teens. And how teens are the most likely to get injured on the job. So far Eric is exploiting how fast food corporations try to seem as though they are your friend and one reason of why there is a problem with fast food restaurants.
How is that a fast food corporation who targeting kid's and trapping them or basically "controlling" them seeing as they are manipulated into getting their parents to take them a fast food restaurant not deemed as uncivil or morally unjust?
How will a nation that is represented by fast food, ultimately shape America's way of living or morals?
3 comments:
I believe if enough people reach out about the damages fast foods have created , society will began to believe it to be true. It definitely wont happen over night but we may began to regain our morals as Americans sooner than later.
_ ap scholar .
i feel that if the world just takes control and let the fast food companies know that they don't run us then we should be able to regain or dignity and self pride as a nation. Its not going to be an easy task but if we all work together we should be able to get the job done.
Ha not to laugh or anything but that is smart to get kids while their young so they can always remember mcdonald. But the causes that gets kids sick is not funny. I was very into this chapter of how to be persuasive and make money. But people should know wrong from right and know what fast food can do to you but you also get caught up on all the advertisings like cermercials, sigh, the big m sigh from the freeway and everything else to make you buy.
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