Let Them Eat Fat
[Re-writing CATW 3]
In the passage “Let Them Eat Fat” by Greg Critser from Harper’s Magazine, It is stated by the author that despite of the strong criticism that fast –food restaurants have received by nutritionist and dietitians, they continue focusing on low-income families, and the most affected according to Cristser are young black men. Even though I agree with him about how aggressive fast-food restaurants have become, I disagree about black men are the most affected because I believe that teenagers in general are affected. The reasons can be that fast-food restaurants use media a lot, their food fast and cheap, and they don’t give enough information about the side effects.
As Greg Crister mentions, McDonalds is one of the biggest sellers of fast-food , and it’s the one that uses media a lot starting with fraise “I’m loving it” Even though people don’t like it, the media has already implanted the idea in people’s mind that says that they do like it. Also their TV commercials show good time with family and friends while people eating hamburgers. Moreover, they have the “happy meal” for kids, and it comes with a hamburger or chicken nuggets, a drink [mostly soda] french fries and the key of their success on kids, a toy. These toys are the most wanted characters for kids, so they’ll really want them. Another famous part of the menu is “the dollar menu”, so who wouldn’t be surrender, if it’s just a dollar, “I’m loving it.”
McDonald’s, the most famous fast-food restaurant, offers the dollar menu that includes: cheeseburgers, DOBLEcheesburgers, mcChickens, chicken nuggets, french fries and soda. This menu is most attacked by teenagers. I can re-enforce Greg Cristen’s statement about that teenagers and low-income families are the main victims by fast-food because I used to work at McDonald’s and both young and adults could use their last penny, but they had to have a complete meal which includes sandwich, fries and soda, from there. In fact, teenagers asked for senior citizens discount that McDonald’s offers when didn’t have enough money to buy a meal. Sometimes they didn’t eat at school because they could save their money in order to go and eat at McDonald’s. Moreover, if they bought a meal, they would ask for supersize, so they could take the leftover of fries and a refill of soda to home. In addition , McDonald’s policy says that the whole service has to be done in 90 seconds; otherwise, they aren’t covering the standards of good service, and people won’t be happy that they do everything is necessary in order to be fast and give “good service.”
McDonald’s offers good time by media and fast service at the restaurant, so people will have good service. However, how they do it in just 90 seconds? Well, McDonalds’ doesn’t tell everything which means that doesn’t tell the truth. They don’ t mention in their ads that the meat of their hamburgers are in the freezer for month, they don’t say that the eggs of their Mcmuffins arrive to the restaurant already cooked, their salads are already made it, their fruit salads are marinated with tons of sugar and of course everything contains a high quantity of preservative. All those things can bring side effects such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, liver condition, and obesity. Why? Because they won’t be famous as they are. Finally, teenagers don’t realized any effect because they just feel sleepy all the time. They don’t know that the “dollar menu” and supersizing are the cause of these effects on them.
In brief, we need to do more than just criticize fast food restaurants. We need to be more conscious about what we eat and to transmit that to our youth because low-prices are not always as good as it seems, so Don’t let our youth eat fat.
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