I am a freshman at the University of Arizona who watch Food Inc. in their English 102 class. From there, I really was interested in finding out what secrets the fast food industry was hiding and ultimately WHY fast food was so cheap if real unprocessed beef is the opposite. How is it that we, as consumers, can have an entire meal for less than $5 and not wonder why and how its made so that its cheap. Interesting enough, I chose this topic to write about and this is what I found, and since researching, my fast food intake has slowed down incredibly.
It has been proven that Americans spend most of their income on fast food products, but just what is the average consumer paying for? After discovering that tainted meats were being produced and sold to the customer in several fast food restaurants, the cost of fast food being so cheap is essentially self-explanatory. Since the products these corporations sell to us are, in fact, tainted and not made of one hundred percent real beef, the cost of the product to the customer is going to be less than, due to the fact that the production cost for the corporation was inexpensive.
So I asked, "what is the real cost behind fast food, and is one dollar even worth the quality and production of the fast food we all are victims of consuming?" and this is my answer!
It has been proven that Americans spend most of their income on fast food products, but just what is the average consumer paying for? After discovering that tainted meats were being produced and sold to the customer in several fast food restaurants, the cost of fast food being so cheap is essentially self-explanatory. Since the products these corporations sell to us are, in fact, tainted and not made of one hundred percent real beef, the cost of the product to the customer is going to be less than, due to the fact that the production cost for the corporation was inexpensive.
So I asked, "what is the real cost behind fast food, and is one dollar even worth the quality and production of the fast food we all are victims of consuming?" and this is my answer!