Should fast food places like Mcdonalds and Burger King be shut down?

Question

I mean what good comes of it? Here in America People just keep getting fatter and fatter everyday because of foods from these places... not to mention the endless areas of land and forests that are destroyed to make us fat.......

There is wildlife we haven't even discovered or studied yet that is becoming extinct because thier habitat is being destroyed by places like these......

ummm yeah Eduardo.... that's why I said "places like" because I didn't feel like listing all of them.

They have to tear down forests because once all of the cattle have ruined the land they have been grazing on, they have to tear down more forests to create more grazing land..... it takes awhile for the land they have grazed on to recover...

Nice one JC ... Isn't Walmart to blame for everything? :)

Answer 1

Yes, I think they should shut down fastfood resturants. America is known for fattning and greasy fast food. I think they should keep tyhe healthy fast food resturants, like Chick-Fil-A and Subway. Wild life is very important and fat people and taking up the space for the animals.

Answer 2

No, because you're placing the problem on the wrong parties. You could shut down every McDonalds and Burger King in existence and nothing would change. Americans would still be fat, and the environment would continue to get destroyed.

Shutting down these chains wont change the root of the problem, which is that people lack self control, and people want all that meat in the first place. I'm not saying everyone should become a vegetarian, I love burgers too, but if fast food shut down, I would just go find my red meat elsewhere. Which means there would still be a market for beef, which means you'd have to clear away some trees in some foreign country to make fields for the cows to graze on, because our desire for meat far exceeds our capacity to produce it.

Solutions to complex problems are never as simple as "It's Walmart's fault!" People need to stop being intellectually lazy and look deeper into the issues they claim to be concerned with, instead of blaming obesity on companies that are only providing a service the fat asses demand in the first place.

If you want to change the world, you're going to first have to start with trying to change the people in it. Convince people to eat better, and consume less. Otherwise any other solution is just a waste of time.

Answer 3

Yes. However, this will only begin to address the problems that plague our world.

Food shouldn't be a business. Neither should medicine and healthcare.

Our dependance on oil is another problem. All our trucks and busses, at the least, should be converted to Bio-diesel.

Businesses that are found to pollute the environment should be fined and forced to change and repeat offenders should be put in jail.

Stop the "war" on drugs. Legalize them. Tax them. Use the money to educate people. The money spent on the war on drugs is sickening and hasn't done a damn thing to change the fact that people will do what people will do. I heard 69 billion a year is what America spends on the war on drugs. That is since about 1970. Nothing has changed except for the amount of people in jail or dead.

Prohibition is not the answer.

I could go on but won't.

Have a nice day.

Peace. =-)

Answer 4

No, they shouldn't. I am a market-oriented person and I understand that they are simply supplying to the market what the market wants--supply and demand. However, you're point is well taken and the "fatter and fatter" problem is not only epidemic in our country but it is a national disgrace. About this, we are the laughing stock of the world. What would be better is for there to be a massive national effort akin to putting a man on the moon that would educate, inform, and change the attitudes of our populace away from the artery-clogging fast food that we now have towards healthy, wholesome foods. We should be leading the world in this regard.

Answer 5

yes....and no. if people would not eat it 10 times a week or just live off it, it wouldnt be so bad. the people that eat it there for every meal of the day, and they shove that crap down there kids throats, are the ones that keep them open. I should be able to eat what i want when i want. But i know what that food does to you, so i eat it maybe if at most once a month.
We need to open more healty food stores, with good food. salads, fruits, veggies, find ways to make healthy food taste better then what those fast food stores have. I love burger kings whoppers, but when i eat them, my stomach hurts and i get a headache, so i kno its not good for me, and i try not to eat it.

Answer 6

No they shouldn't.. People have a choice on where/what they are going to eat, people need to control themselves! Besides, if they close down the fast food places people will just go to the grocery store and buy just as fattening food! People are the real problem!

Answer 7

Interesting point. Someone who feels passionately about what we eat should take it on. Maybe offering more healthy alternatives rather than shutting down what's there would be a better strategy.

Answer 8

the fat angle I see......how they are tearing down forests I don't see. Think you have some wrong info there or something.

McDonalds and others have huge farms over seas that raise cattle in herds that would make your head spin in huge open spaces. The last thing a farmer of any type ever wants to do is take down trees to make land.

Answer 9

No because it is about choice. They choose to walk in and eat rubbish. Little kids like it for a treat. This is a good question, but it requires a discussion - not a short answer. Regards.

Answer 10

Del Taco