by Bobby Coles

Created on: June 13, 2009   Last Updated: May 09, 2012

Fast food has gone global, and the image of America's restaurants has suffered with the negative images associated. As large fast food corporations branch outside of North America, they are painting Americans with a tainted brush.

The image and perception of Americans will be that they are fast food junkies in poor health. This is not the ideal image that America wants to paint for the rest of the world, but one that it cannot help because of the overexposure of several large fast food chains.

With the massive expansion of fast food restaurants into other countries and continents, the globalization has created a negative image of America's restaurants. This globalization has been met with disdain in the eyes of everyone other than big business America.

The fast food industry has taken some major hits of late, most notably from Hollywood, with Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me penetrating the conscience of Joe Public.

The view of fast food has always been one of turn a blind eye, but with the proliferation of these films, the hideous truth that lies behind the industry has been exposed, and has posed a large blight onto the image of America and her eating habits.

It is hard to believe that a negative viewpoint is not shared amongst other nations when it comes to the fast food industry of America. The plain and simple truth is that the fast food industry is a multi-billion dollar conglomeration that cares only about its bottom line.

Fast food has severe negative impacts on health, such as obesity epidemics, and the marketing of the product to children is an atrocious practice. Many people see right through the corporations, much the same as they can see through the flimsy burgers doled out by your average fast food chain.

Thanks to the technology industry, and the mass marketing globalization of fast food chains, America's restaurants are deemed unhealthy, and the cause of obesity and other health related issues. Movies like Super Size Me have painted an intolerable picture of the American diet.

The whole movie industry, slaves to the advertising dollars bestowed upon them from product placement happy corporations, helps to paint this distorted view.

The image of America's restaurants is a very negative one, mainly due to some culprits with fast food chains all over the world. If you travel to the Pyramids of Giza, within range is a whole spate of American fast food chains, trying to lure more money out of the pockets of North American tourists, and to also

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