Fast Food Nation: Chapter One

                Hello everyone! I have finished reading chapter one of Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser  today, and I honestly thought that it would be boring but I do like it so far. Schlosser tells you about a specific story of one entrepreneur who took risks and had great success, but in the end loses it all. Along the way, Schlosser also tells us of other fast food victories and the stories of the most successful and most popular fast food franchises today. The stories are remarkable because of the similar ways each person that started these fast food chains began. They were almost all uneducated, had a small fortune and took large risks. Today, all of those fast food chains are the biggest money makers.
                While reading chapter one, I had a few thoughts. The way that these chains made there food was most likely much different than they make it today (which is with chemicals and hormones). If these restaurnats made it like they did years ago, maybe it wouldn't be as bad for Americans and not cause all these sicknesses and diseases. When these business owners first opened there fast food restaurants up during the early 1900's, I doubt that they were thinking how different and unhealthy they would make peoples lives years to come. They just wanted to make fast cash but I don't think that they thought of the consequences of how the food was going to change and become revolutionized decades later.
               Fast food did change the entire world and without it restaurants and small businesses would be making the most money. I think that there would be less obese and unhealthy people who are  the right weight just as well. In America, there are currently 60 million obese people over the age of 20. There are 9 million obese children between the ages of 6-19. Obesity is the #2 cause of death in the United States.  I don't believe that it is a positive thing that these fast food chains were so common since so long ago. Society would definitely be much different than it is today if they had not been created.