Work Conditions
- About 3.5 million fast food workers in the U.S.
- Minimum wage without medical benefits or the right to unionize.
- Workers went on strike for increase in wages
- Fast food workers suffer from inujies
(Food Empowerment Project, n.d.)
(Greenhouse, S., 2014)
Conditions
Slaughter Houses
- Supervisors threaten to terminate workers discouraging them from reporting safety concerns, injuries, or other serious issues.
- Workers labor each day in conditions with predictable risks, in which there are safer alternatives
- Largest factor contributing to worker injuries is the speed, in which the animals are killed and processed.
- Workers labor long hours in some of the most dangerous working conditions in the country for a relatively low wage.
- Workers slaughtering animals everyday can have an emotional toll on them.
- Work Condition
- Slaughter Houses
- Enivronmental
(Food Empowerment Project, n.d.)
Environmental
- Fast food outlets are our country's primary source of urban litter
- To prevent grease leakage, many fast food companies use perfluoroalkyls to cover their packaging, which harm the environment and human health
- Factory farming is one of the top most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems (water,chemicals, and air)
Geography & Socioeconomic
(Food Empowerment Project, n.d.)
(Californians Against Waste, n.d.)
- There are fewer supermarkets in lower income markets
- More fast food restaurant are found in places with higher rates of poverty
- It takes twice as long to get to fast food establishments in neighborhoods with a higher economic status
- Poor households are 4x more likely to purchase fast food compared to wealthier households
- London- 2012 Olympic Games
Present Day
- DC-3 Airliner- Taupo, New Zealand
- $7.25 an hour in KY (minimum)
- 52% of families are on some sort of public assistance compared to the 25% of workforce as a whole
- Public assistance to family workers is nearly $7 billion a year
- More than 1/4 are rasing 1 child
- Fast food CEO's make an average of $23.8 million
- Average paycheck of fast food worker would leave a family of 3 under poverty line
(Shmitt & Jones, 2013) (Ruetschlin2014)
History
- Today there are 25,000 McDonald's locations on Earth
- 118 out of 196 countries have a McDonald's
- A few interesting McDonald's locations:
Advertisements& Marketing
- When exposed to food commercials, kids ate 45% more food than the kids exposed to non-food advertisements
- Approximately 20% of preschool age children are overweight
- $2 billion a year is spent by the food and beverage industry on marketing towards kids
- An average of 10 food-related TV ads are viewed daily
- 40% of diet comes from unhealthy foods
Money & Profit
(Impact of food advertising on childhood obesity,n.d.), (The facts on junk food marketing and kids,n.d.)
- Wages
- Advertisements & Marketing
- Geography & Socio-economic
Pompeii in Relation to theCapital of Rome
- Pompeii/ Roman Empire
- Medieval Europe
- America 1940's
- Present Day
- Fast Food has been around since Roman Empire
- Since the Roman Empire fast food has evolved, and in the 1940's in southern California the first drive-in was built.
- Something quick to eat has been a mainstay of our culture for nearly 100 years.
Pompeii/ Roman Empire
- Mount Vesuvius erupts in 79 AD- Dr. Penelope Allison excavates an entire city block.
Thermopolium- (cook shop)
Tabernae- (tavern)
- Plates were found in individual rooms
- Lack of tableware, kitchen areas or formal dining areas
- Most citizens lived in small apartmentesque living areas
- Excavated bones were depleted of zinc
- Lentil or chickpea soup, fish paste, olives, cherries and many types of bread
Learning Objectives
(Viegas, 2007)
Medieval Europe
- 13th Century London had nearly 25,000 "drive-ins"
- Tax records show that only 3%of households in Colchester, England had a kitchen
- 14th Century London- Criminal records that still exist show that only 7 arrested individuals had kitchen utensils.
- London 1350- Laws were made to prevent greedy bakers from charging more than a penny to put a customer's meat in a bread casing and bake it.
- "God sends meat, the devil sends cooks"
Early Fast Food in America
Coon-Chicken
Inn
- Founded by Maxon Lester Graham
- Opened in 1925
- Closed in 1949
- Joseph Staton- The Northwest Enterprise
The History of the Coon Chicken Inn. Retreived from http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/links/chicken/
Retreived from: http://www.engr.psu.edu/mtah/articles/fast_food.htm
- First "fast food" restaurant has been debated between A&W and White Castle.
- White Castle opened in 1921, while A&W opened in 1916. They were only a soda stand until 1923.
- McDonald's opened in 1937, originally called "The Airdome" by Patrick McDonald.
- In 1940, renamed "McDonald's Famous Barbeque" by Mac and DIck McDonald.
- Fired all car hops and made the first "assembly line" style fast food restaurant.
- Dec. 12th 1948- "McDonald's"
- Original Trademark of the Coon Chicken Inn
- September 18, 1930- Seatlle NAACP threatened to sue "Libel and Defamation of a race"
Fast Food
- Graham then changed the mistrel icon's skin color to blue.
What is in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets?
White Boneless Chicken Breast
By the end of class..
students will understand the effects fast food has on conditions. (work, health, environmental) (Foundational Knowledge)
students will be informed in order to make decisions about their fast food consumption. (Application)
students will be able to connect the food production process with what they are actually eating and consuming. (Integration)
students will understand that they are making unhealthy choices and decide to become healthier. (Human Diversity)
students will be more interested in what they order and consume at food food restaurants and the injustices that they employees face. (Caring)
students will be motivated to continue learning about fast food production, consumption, wages of employees, and the advertisements from fast food corporations. (Learning How To Learn)
Humane Myths
Consumers are lead to believe that animal products come from animals who were "humanely raised."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture does not set any requirements for the welfare of animals raised for food.
Nearly all animals raised for food:
- Are separated from their mother shortly after birth
- Travel long distances to the slaughterhouses in extreme confinement
- Are slaughtered at a very young age
Health
Side Effects
- Addiction
- Acne
- Migraines
- Depression
- Decreased sex drive
(Food Empowerment Project, n.d.)
- (4 Surprising side effects of eating fast food, n.d.)
Farming
KFC's "Top Supplier" caught mistreating live chickens.
Animal Abuse
- Obesity
- Nutritional quality
- Side Effects
Nutritional Quality
Gabby, Morgan, Dustin, Kalyn, Brooke
- Taco Bell arguments over the fillers in their meat
- Restaurants adding salads to the menu
- Lower fruit and vegetable consumption because of price
- Concentration of food: Pink slime, gelatin, bone char, meat glue
- Factory farming is one of the top causes of pollution by the waste from animal farms and agricultural chemicals.
- Factory farms supply product at lowest possible cost by crowding the animals together, pumping them with growth hormones, and amputating body parts.
- Most consumers do not realize that approximately 99% of all animal products consumed in the U.S. come from animals raised in factory farms
- Factory farming is an inherently hazardous industry that exploits both workers and the animals.
Obesity
- (Anderson, 2014)
- (James & Abel, 2004)
- (Himmelstein, 2014)
- Who is to blame for the obesity issues?
- Increased obesity by 66% in the past few decades
- Lawsuit against McDonalds from overweight children in New York
- Fast food Corporations targeting children
Fast Food Behind the Scenes
Factory Farm Workers
- (Mello, Rimm & Studdert,n.d.)
- (Kruger, Greenberg, Murphy, DiFazio & Youra, 2014)
- "Animal agrriculture" employs approcimately 700,000 workers in the U.S.
- A unknown pecentage of workers are undocumented because they are less likely to complain about their conditions.
- routinely inhale hazardous levels of pariculate matter.
- Physicians often encourance workers to leave their jobs, however, most feel unqualified for other lines of work.
(Food Empowerment Project, n.d.)
Home Style Hamburger
McDonald's Hamburger
McDonald's
Nuggets
Tyson
Nuggets