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Fast foods, like those belonging to the multinational companies McDonald's and Burger King were created to provide the Americans with cheap and basic meals they could consume quickly, even without getting off from their cars, as a maximum triumph of laziness, hurry and, eventually, of obesity.
In this way, the Americans have become the fattest people of the world and also the least long living among the industrial Countries.

Also at home, many Americans exceed with butter, cheese, meat, snacks containing sugars and chocolate, eggs (with their content of cholesterol). So, this fat food culture is also well present at home, where hamburgers, hot-dogs and fried potatoes are a normal presence and too many Americans, also forced by the severe times imposed by work & profit, tend to eat fast, abundant and unhealthy.

All this diet, so poor of fruits, legumes, green vegetable, cereals, is easily coupled with the sedentary lifestyle they must lead at work and at home, sitting down looking TV, using the PC or playing video-games and working at home doing the housework.

Fast-foods provide a meat-based food mainly made by veal and pork meat, bred in intensive breeding farms in the US and in Latin America; if we consider the breeding farms producing meat for the US and all the other Western Countries, these poor animals are fed with cereals coming from 50% of all the soy, maize, fodder and cereals crops of all the world and a minimum of 7-8 Kg of these vegetable food are necessary to obtain 1 Kg of edible meat.

Of course, the largest part of this meat is consumed only in the US and in the rich Western Countries of the world (about 1/4 of the world population) while the rest of the humanity lives and survives with a mainly vegetarian diet; this would be excellent if these populations weren't affected by draught, misery, overpopulation, natural disasters, deforestation to get new land for cattle and export farming (for meat and milk production), excessive and wrong use of their fertile soil with intensive plantations for export at the place of their local and typical cultivations.

A good part of this forced export (paid a misery) is swallowed by the meat producing companies, among which just McDonald's and Burger King.
So, the hamburgers and hot-dogs eaten in fast-foods are very cheap and available for everybody but they cost obesity, arteriosclerosis, infarct, gout to the Americans and the Europeans and famine, draught, deforestation, social conflicts and misery

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