Fats Food: Living in a super-sized society

The experience of buying fast food has become all too familiar. The pick-up windows, the paper bags with the grease soaked bottoms, even the little ketchup pockets and plastic forks seem as routine as showering or sleeping. It is the ultimate indulgence; the guilty pleasure where both adults and children share a special bond. But behind the dripping burgers and salty fries, stomachs are bulging, and after the meals are finished, more and more people are wallowing in decadence and shame.

Many people buy fast food without any thought to it, sometimes having their entire

daily food consumption based entirely on junk food. Some claim it to be “comforting”, but how comforting can it possibly be if you have no clue what any of the products are made from, what lurks between those sesame seed buns? And what’s mo

The Fast-food industry is manipulating North American society surreptitiously. Chemically enhanced flavours are used as a way for us to distinguish the good from the bad. Basically, the “Super Value Meals” we order every day are about as valuable as the wrappers they comes in, and the reason we are so intrigued by these foods is because artificial flavour is pumped into them. The reason this has gone unnoticed is because human taste buds offer limited means of detection. The colour of fast food is also altered. Colouring agents are added to the soft drinks, the buns, cookies, salad dressings, ketchup, mustard, and chicken.

Let’s turn the spotlight on the globally renowned claptrap canteen, McDonald’s. Millions of people treat themselves to McDonald’s world-famous French fries, which are about as healthy as they are French. After decades of using 93% beef tallow, McDonald’s has switched to vegetable oil and a chemical cocktail that mysteriously gives the fries a “natural flavour”. Perhaps even more odd than what is really in the beef is why everything is labelled “naturally” or “artificially” flavoured on packages without a solid explanation to what makes a product real or fake. On top of that

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