Advertisement in Fast Food Resturants

In this article "Fast-food companies aggressively target kids, says comprehensive study" is about advertisement affecting children and teens. Food industries spend $4.2 billion on advertising in 2009. I found it interesting that 40% of preschoolers ask to go to McDonald's at least once a week, it shows that it does affect in some how. Also I think parents are responsible because if their child is hungry they look to go to a fast food restaurant which is fast. About 15% ask to go everyday .

One-third of U.S. children and teens eat fast food everyday. I think parents should limit the exposure to tv advertisements and also taking their kids there if they ask for it. Its horrible that young children have to suffer obesity at such young ages.

http://www.naturalnews.com/030486_fast_food_marketing.html

How Clean are Fast Food Restaurants?

In this article ''Dirty Dining?" is an article about how clean and safe 10 of our fast food chains are. If we people are hungry we want something to eat that is fast and tasty and fast food restaurants are something close to that. Most people know what goes on in fast food restaurants but why do we still eat it? In each of these 10 chains is 75,000 restaurants.(Taco Bell, McDonald's, KFC, Subway, Jack in the Box, Dairy Queen, Hardees, Wendy's, Arby's and Burger King.) They use health inspectors to survey which chains are the direst and cleanest.

In these different states they found dead rodent traps, things that don't belong in food and illnesses. This makes me feel disgusted because we eat these fast foods and we don't know what goes on behind the counters. Health inspectors say they can't close down the restaurant but they can give violations. I was shocked that there is a 60% problem that are hazardous to our health because sometimes we cant help but eat a fast food meal once in a while and we can end up with a horrible illness.

I also felt happy because people again are trying to keep up with what is going on with food that we eat.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3473728/ns/dateline_nbc-consumer_alert/

Food Safety in other States

In this article "Food safety oversight varies greatly by state" is an article about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and CSPI food saftey director to assign letter grades to the 50 states wether they have foodbourne illnesses. I found it shocking that 14 states were given an "F'' (Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and West Virgina.) I found it shocking that 14 states failed the tracking of foodbourne illnesses because it shows that people dont keep track of the illnesses. But 7 states got an "A" (Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Wyoming.) After reading this article I felt happy that New York wasnt given an "F" it shows somewhat that our food is safe. I also found it shocking that "about 48 million people suffer from a foodbourne illness every year and CDC says 128,000 end up in the hospital from the illnessess each year and 3,000 die.'' I think the CDC should check up more often to lower the illnesses and deaths each year.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/food-safety/138891-report-food-safety-oversight-varies-greatly-by-state