American Fastfood Chains Spread Globally & World is Worse For It

Yesterday, I wrote an article for the Guardian Liberty Voice about the rising rates of obesity and diabetes around the globe.

If you would like to read the article (please do!), here is the link:

Obesity Rates Escalating Globally:

http://guardianlv.com/2015/05/obesity-rates-escalating-globally/

Well, we all know, at least unofficially, that this is, in large part, one of the side effects of globalization, which often has tended to bear a strange resemblance to Americanization. That goes for movies, music, television shows, fashion styles, corporations and their policies and, increasingly, diet. 

Here is yet another story that I encountered recently, and which it seems fitting now to follow up yesterday's GLV article with something related:


We are hearing heartwrenching stories lately about McDonald's and their worldwide struggles to stay atop the fastfood chain.

At least, if you listen to these reports from an economic perspective, from the Wall Street perspective, it seems like a sad story.

But then, you remember that Wall Street is not part of the solution, but part of the problem. Hell, Wall Street is the problem, and most likely, anyone that they truly sympathize with (like McDonald's) is a huge part of the problem as well.

Remember, this is a corporation that essentially took over, going from one small restaurant, a nice, quaint burger place with some real character, to a worldwide corporate conglomerate that took over in the United States and Canada, then set their sights around the rest of the world. They took over in Europe (sadly, the one country where McDonald's is really doing exceptionally well in is France, which bothers me as a citizen of that country, which has a very rich culinary tradition), and spread to many other parts of the world, including Latin America and, now, Asia. The Chinese and Indians love it. Imagine, India, where cows are supposed to be sacred in some parts! Yet, McDonald's is making a killing!

Not surprisingly, it is having an effect, and not a good one, either. The staggering rise of diabetes globally is apparently linked at least in part to the increased availability of fastfood chains, and again, McDonald's is the biggest of these.

Is it really that surprising, given the mysterious stuff that they put in their food (you guys remember pink slime, hopefully)? Watch Supersize Me, and you'll get an idea of the adverse effects that this food will have on you if you allow it to become a regular staple of your diet.

Plus, on an ecological level, these fastfood chains are having a tremendous impact on a negative level. The amount of forests that need to be cleared for grazing land for the cattle that are fed (probably weird food themselves) in order to be slaughtered for the cheap beef that these fastfood establishments serve is staggering and, frankly, horrifying!

And then, when you take into consideration the kind of impact that they have on our individual health on top of it!

Here is a link to a story about what happened when some rural Africans, used to a more natural diet, suddenly switched to an American diet for only two weeks! The results speak for themselves:





Here’s what happens when rural Africans eat an American diet for 2 weeks This is kind of worrying. FIONA MACDONALD5 MAY 2015:

http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-happens-when-rural-africans-eat-an-american-diet-for-2-weeks