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I Went Into The Library And Read About Fast Food And Became Amazed By All The Stuff I Didn't Know. I Learned That There Is A Whole World Behind The Counter That, It Seemed To Me, Has Been Deliberately Hidden From The Public.

The Obesity Epidemic Among American Children Is Becoming So Bad That I Think There's A Growing Realization Across The Country That We've Got To Change What We're Feeding Our Kids And That School May Be A Really Good Place To Start.

When You Go Into A Fast Food Restaurant, You May Just Think About How Good Your Meal Tastes While You're Eating It. But You're Not Thinking About All The Consequences That Come From That One Purchase - The Consequences For Your Body, The Consequences For Supporting This Company And How It's Treating It Workers, All The Way Back To The Farm Where The Potatoes Were Grown, Or The Ranch Where The Cattle Were Raised.

I'd Been Eating Fast Food All My Life Without Thinking About It. And The More I Learned About The Subject, The More Intrigued I Became.

The Federal Government Has More Power To Recall A Defective Stuffed Animal Who's Little Glass Eye May Fall Off Than To Recall Contaminated Ground Beef That Could Sicken Or Even Kill Hundreds If Not Thousands Of People. The Meat-packing Industry Is So Powerful That It's Managed To Prevent The Government From Having This Basic Power Of Recalling A Defective Product.