Chapter 5

When Schlosser said just some of the ingredients that go into the artificial strawberry flavor for Burger King's strawberry milkshake I was astounded that so many chemicals go into this one flavor. He named over 45 chemicals that go into this one thing. When they could have just used actual strawberries to get an even better flavor, they have decided to have us fill ourselves with unnatural chemicals. It disgusts me how bad this "delicious"food is for us, yet some people eat it every day knowing it's horrible for them.

Introduction

"Americans now, spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines newspapers, videos and recorded music - combined" I had no clue that our dependence on fast food was this bad. These sentences shocked me. I occasionally have fast food when my parents don't feel like cooking, but I thought that we weren't spending that much. Our life style has be come so controlled by fast food and we don't even know it.