Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Many known cancer-causing ingredients are still widely used in fast food production,
including MSG, aspartame, food colorings, sodium nitrate & BHT.
*It has been recently discovered that roughly 50% of all fountain drink dispensers in fast
food restaurants are contaminated with fecal bacteria, and studies also estimate that the
average fast food customer in America will consume about 12 pubic hairs (not counting
their own) every year.
*Even worse, the fast food industry has radically altered how cattle, chickens and pigs
are raised, slaughtered and processed around the globe. It has led to the consolidation of
the meatpacking industry (as of the writing of this chapter, there were only 13 major
meatpackers in the entire United States), and the acts of animal cruelty committed by fast
food meat-suppliers are simply atrocious.
*Fast food chains are not only in our stomachs, they are in our heads as well. The average
child sees over 10,000 food advertisements every year on TV. It has been shown that
children can recognize McDonald’s before they can even speak, and that over 95% of all
American children know who Ronald McDonald is. Fast food chains bombard us with
their promotions and jingles and slogans from a very early age, programming us to think
that it is fine and dandy for us to “treat ourselves” to their tasty products. Of course, when
we do so, the only thing we are treating ourselves and our children to is an early death.
Fast Food -- A Way OUT
The solution to your fast food addiction is actually a pretty simple one: avoid fast food
restaurants at all costs. Essentially, you simply have to EAT LIKE YOU CARE:
Eat Like You Care about animals, … Eat Like You Care about the Earth,
Eat Like You Care about your children,
… & Eat Like You Care about yourself!
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