While it is not a new book, I started reading "Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" and I must say that so far, I move between anger and disbelief. I suppose on a subconscious level, most people know that fast food restaurant and other franchises and, yes, even Disney are just trying to rip the average person's hard earned cash from their hands. However, we still go to these places. We still allow our children to eat this crap food and purchase meals created around free gifts. They create charities under the guise of providing a healthy minds and bodies. Healthy bodies, my foot, they just don't want their consumers dying because the company would lose money. They only appear to be looking out for our well-being...
They build playgrounds at their restaurants to attract children because our local governments are not budgeting to build parks and play areas that are free of advertising. It's all about the almighty dollar. Don't let them fool you into thinking it is about anything but that. They don't care about the consumer, they are simply looking for more ways of separating you from your income.
I have started a personal campaign against huge corporations that rob small local business of their livelihoods. I will do my best to spread the message of peace and love in the world and I will use my willingness to spend to attempt to bring these corporations down. Am I fighting a losing battle? Perhaps. But by reading this book, I have awakened something inside of me that is no longer willing to put up with the way society allows these kinds of things to happen.
Let me start here by providing you with a quote from one of the founders of the current McDonald's chain:
"We have found out...that we cannot trust people who are nonconformists. We will make conformists out of them in a hurry... The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization".
Don't you think this sounds like something from Orwell's "1984"? I think I might make a t-shirt out of it and wear it everywhere. If I did, do you think that people would be as horrified by it as I am?
Are you?
Read the book, even if you aren't. I think you may find it very interesting...
They build playgrounds at their restaurants to attract children because our local governments are not budgeting to build parks and play areas that are free of advertising. It's all about the almighty dollar. Don't let them fool you into thinking it is about anything but that. They don't care about the consumer, they are simply looking for more ways of separating you from your income.
I have started a personal campaign against huge corporations that rob small local business of their livelihoods. I will do my best to spread the message of peace and love in the world and I will use my willingness to spend to attempt to bring these corporations down. Am I fighting a losing battle? Perhaps. But by reading this book, I have awakened something inside of me that is no longer willing to put up with the way society allows these kinds of things to happen.
Let me start here by providing you with a quote from one of the founders of the current McDonald's chain:
"We have found out...that we cannot trust people who are nonconformists. We will make conformists out of them in a hurry... The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization".
Don't you think this sounds like something from Orwell's "1984"? I think I might make a t-shirt out of it and wear it everywhere. If I did, do you think that people would be as horrified by it as I am?
Are you?
Read the book, even if you aren't. I think you may find it very interesting...
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