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The fall 2013 issue of Ms. promotes the need for higher fast food worker wages.. Criticism of fast food includes claims of negative health effects, animal cruelty, cases of worker exploitation, children-targeted marketing and claims of cultural degradation via shifts in people's eating patterns away from traditional foods.
Eating at fast food restaurants is very common among young people, with 75% of 7th to 12th grade students consuming fast food in a given week. [60] The fast food industry is also at fault for the rise in childhood obesity. This industry spends about $4.2 billion on advertisements aimed at young children. McDonald's alone has thirteen websites ...
The United States food and beverage industry has increased the amount of advertising that intensively and aggressively targets children through multiple channels. [1] Food marketers know that the youth consumers have equal if not more spending power than adults, they hold purchasing influence, and have the potential to be lifelong consumers.
That one industry is fast food. This past January alone, eight states “introduced or took new actions” on proposed legislation that would reduce child-labor protections, per EPI research ...
According to the industry research company IBISWorld, there were more than 200,000 fast-food businesses in the United States as of 2023. Survey findings published in 2018 also revealed that 36.6% ...
On average children between the ages of 8 and 12 see 21 fast food advertisements a day through televised media. [41] Children decide their food preference at an early moment through a preliminary learning process and when they are exposed to large amounts of fast food advertising it has major long-lasting implications on their diet. [42]
Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker.Spurlock's film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003, during which he claimed to consume only McDonald's food, although he later disclosed he was also drinking heavy amounts of alcohol.
As societies become increasingly reliant on energy-dense, big-portions, and fast-food meals, the association between fast-food consumption and obesity becomes more concerning. [120] In the United States, consumption of fast-food meals tripled and food energy intake from these meals quadrupled between 1977 and 1995.