With all the negative criticisms surrounding the fast food industry and their products, I highly doubt that presently there is a single person who would argue fast food is a “healthy and nutritious meal”. Everyone is aware

Now what happens when a regular fast food consumer realizes he/she is extremely over weight and cannot even tie his/her own shoe laces or barely move? They sue the fast food chain for damages; demanding millions of dollars in compensation. Nothing could be more ridiculous because presently most of the fast food chains are publicly owned corporations. Thus, the money demanded by this negligent person who had been eating fast food throughout his whole life would be coming out of ordinary stock owner’s pocket that may have his/her whole pension fund invested in the corporation. The CEO running the corporation legally not bound to pay even a dime out of his pocket and if the law suit is lost the shareholders will pay. I cannot find one logical explanation why the stockholders should pay for the damages to someone who has been ignorant about his/her eating habits.

Lastly, in the chapter “The Most Dangerous Job” Schlosser criticizes the conditions in the meat packing plants. He claims skilled workers were replaced by illegal immigrants and the number of OSHA inspections decreased. As a result, the working conditions deteriorated and the number of serious injuries rose. He claims the corporations only care about bottom line and it comes at the expense of safety in the meat packing plants. I firmly believe safety at work must not be negotiated to save a few pennies. However, let’s face reality – there is no work environment that is one hundred percent safe. Accidents, unfortunately, do happen not only in the meat packing plants and sometimes lives are lost due to an employee’s own negligence and not because of equipment or procedural flaws. “Nationally, 5,524 workers died on the job in 2002 - a significant decrease from the 5,915 who died in 2001.” Thus, Schlosser’s arguments of individual examples do not prove his point that corporations cut costs at the plants at the expense of safety because the corporate and government leaders always strive to improve safety in the work place. I highly doubt there will be a time when a ye

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