After seeing fast food nation, do you think we could make a sequel?!
After seeing fast food nation, do you think we could make a sequel?
Let's call it "slow food nation". First, boycott all the fast food places, forever, which will set the Mexicans free to go home and build their own country up. Then, see us eating healthy organic produce and greens or, at best, well-processed meats and cheeses, free range chickens, slow aged hams etc.. Like Al Gore says, it wouldn't be so damn hard to do, as we already have the means.
In the meantime, my personal sequel would be "downsize me", lose weight and get healthier, which of course has to mean no more fast food ever again for the rest of my life, and you can, too. Just do it, and watch these places pack up and leave.
1 month ago
No, dumbass, in the movie at least, the Mexicans came over the border because they wanted to make money working in our slaughterhouses and meat packing plants, where the process is sped up and the meat gets degraded and contaminated and ends up as fast food, which we buy and continue the cycle. And, if cheap GMO US corn weren't dumped on the Mexican market less poor farmers would be uprooted and sent on the road looking for a better life.
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1 month ago
No, dumbass, in the movie at least, the Mexicans came over the border because they wanted to make money working in our slaughterhouses and meat packing plants, where the process is sped up and the meat gets degraded and contaminated and ends up as fast food, which we buy and continue the cycle. And, if cheap GMO US corn weren't dumped on the Mexican market less poor farmers would be uprooted and sent on the road looking for a better life.
jmestru, yes there are, but not very many.
I've eaten at this one a few times:
http://www.oreanshealthexpress.com/...
There's another one I've been to, but the main issue is cost and customers. Even though both of these places served mainly fresh/organic foods, that puts the cost higher than other "fast foods," and most people wouldn't pay for that. It is better for you, but cost is a larger issue for people, hence obesity, etc....
And since people want/afford only cheap food the quality is going to be poor in terms of it being excessive in fats and cholesterols and some of it being GMO, etc...
Burgers are Mexican?
no...
we do need some kind of fast food but we can make it healthy like barbecued chicken that is low fat and low sodium. We can make pizza healthy like whole grain dough and very light on the cheese with lots of veggies. Tacos can be made healthier too. By the way Mclean did not do that well, they discontinued it. There are dozens of ideas for healthy fast food but there has to be a market for it.
When I am day dreaming, I think of opening a restaurant that will be called Paradigm shift or "my gift to the USA."
I personally agree with boycotting and simply doing away with fast food and all of the negative effects of it, but I also know that it is too deeply rooted into our society now to do anything about it. Vegan and Vegetarian fast food is a good compromise in my mind. Why are there none out there? Would enough people support it to make it catch on? It would still supply a demand for food on the run, give work to workers and help the organic movement (Which buying organic is almost the only way you can ingest foods with out being GMO)
Something to think about