HW3

McDonalds is what most people think of as fast food but isn’t and apple or some hand held food, fast food as well. Fast food can be health but most people look to big corporations that have taken the title as the fast food world.

The McDonalds in Union Square has bright signs where you order food. The pictures of food that looks perfect because it’s food art not the real food. When you get your own food it never looks as good as the picture. The rest of the place has dark colors and low lighting in order to make the signs look better and brighter. This is only one of the ways the fast food industry is so successful. The main reasons they are so successful is that they have cheap food in large quantities and it tastes great. The food at McDonalds as well as most fast food places is bad for you because of all the greasy that goes into the food but people like Dave B. a Native New Yorker still says, “ the food is good here and why should I go to a grocery store and pay high prices for good food. Then have to cook it; when I can pay under 10 dollars and eat till I am full.” That is the ploy that fast food companies use to bring people in. Dave is one of many over weight American with this attitude that it is just easier to eat fast food. The green market across the street would never appeal to him with high priced food not ready to eat.

Then I crossed the street to see the other side of things at the Greenmarket. The Greenmarket was outside and had very bland colors beside. Everything you see looks fresh. The vibe walking in to a green market for me and all other uninformed people is that everything is organic and fresh unlike when I walk in McDonalds. Where I know that it is all processed food. But as I walked around and talked to stands like S&So Produce Farms and Di Paolo Turkeys, which were family run farm they told me that all their veggies were conventionally grown and were not organic. I was told that the meat was all natural but not organic as well. I was shocked. I thought probably as many other people do is that the little stands would be organic that’s why they are special. Still the food at the Greenmarket is healthier for you than McDonalds.

Though the fast food industry is very successful, “the sale of organic food has been increasing by 20 percent per year for the past 10 years. It has been the fastest growing segment of the food industry.” (Tick) Organic food, which is healthier food, is coming back in to American life. It could one day change the fast food world by getting a company to make a fast food place that is healthy as well.

Tick, Paul. "Big Business Enters the Organic Market Place." Organic Consumers Association. Organic Consumers Association, n.d. Web. 23 Sep 2010. <http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/big_business.cfm>.