Section 1 Typically, we need a well-balanced meal to give...

Section 1: Typically, we need a well-balanced meal to give us the energy to do day-to-day tasks and sometimes we aren’t able to get home cooked meals that are healthy and nutritious on a daily basis, due to the reasons of perhaps low income or your mom not being able to have the time to cook. People rely on fast food, because it’s quicker and always very convenient for full-time workers or anyone in general who just want a quick meal. Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation argues that Americans should change their nutritional behaviors. In his book, Schlosser inspects the social and economic penalties of the processes of one specific section of the American food system: the fast food industry. Schlosser details the stages of the fast†¦show more content†¦He recounts the agony of dozens of people who have died of infected meat, describes the sufferings of the illegal slaughterhouse workers, and details the sad fate of the independent business owners. In thi s effort, he counts the successes of the people against the corporations. Schlosser aims his book at the average consumer; he urges them to simply stop buying it. He is able to persuade the reader to join him in his accusation of the fast food industry with the revolting details he presents. Although never directly stated, the book is filled with the idea that you, too, will eventually pay the real price of fast food. Even though the truth comes out about fast food, people often disregard the consequences of it, they still eat fast food due to the cheap price and the tastiness of it, which is simply just flavoring less than 2 percent of beef. Section 2: Eric Schlosser argues that the slaughterhouses and meatpacking industries are unsafe, unhygienic and employees are treated falsely. The industry has made and will not make any effort to change its environment and habits. The companies are afraid to make changes to the industry because slowing the pace to protect workers can lead to a competitive disadvantage. Meatpacking is now the most dangerous job in the United States and the industry consists mostly of illegal immigrants and unskilled workers such as teenagers. The conditions are unsafe and unsanitary and they are rarely paid attention to.Show MoreRelatedA Short Note On The, Inc.1838 Words   |  8 Pageshad an impact in the markets. First, the telecommunication market has dropped 7% in 2002 following WorldCom scandal. It was easy to see that WorldCom scandal on the global market. Second, the scandal caused HGK’s debt security. HGK, standing for Harris, Greenhouse, Kutzel HGK Asset Management company in New Je rsey, invested in $130 million in WorldCom and lost them all, which hurt their growth a lot. Third, WorldCom scandal depreciated the value of dollars. Foreign investors’s confidence in the USRead MoreAudit and Wall Street13173 Words   |  53 Pagesfund in the U.S. It invested the assets of the New York state and local employees‟ retirement system and of the New York State and Local Police and Fire retirement system. The pension fund lost over $300 million of its investments in WorldCom. The HGK Asset Management, a registered investment advisor, also purchased about $130 million of the debt securities offered by WorldCom on behalf of union sponsored pension and benefit plan and lost it all (in re WorldCom, inc., 2003). Institutional investors