Debate: Should fast food culture be stopped?
Side: Fast food culture continues

•French fries are actually made in huge factories, frozen, and then processed. The oils and fats are highly processed and highly fatty. Nothing particularly wrong here. Oils should be fatty, they are, after all, lipids. I'd be worried if I had a zero-fat or reduced-fat oil.What's wrong with processing?•So often, people have reported finding strands of hair and flies in their burgers. And it’s definitely not once a while experience. What about those which were actually not found and ended up inside your stomach because you were too busy to notice them?Extra protein, I guess. You should be more concerned with what's in all the food you buy from a store or eat from your garden. Insect parts, rat droppings, aphids, fecal bacteria, urine, etc.•Processed foods are filled with unhealthy ingredients. They are loaded with fats, sugar, salt, and artificial additives. They are not only responsible for the rising number of obesity cases in children and adults, but they also have serious long-term effects on your health. Fats, sugars and salts are necessary for life. Just don't eat them in excess.•Order iced tea and get it with some sanitizer. A customer actually had this experience with a popular fast food restaurant. She actually got a McDonalds sanitizer in it. This is a cleaning chemical used for kitchen equipment and surfaces. No wonder she decided to sue the restaurant. Screwups happen. I'd be amazed if in all the chain restaurants no mistakes ever happened. That would be godly.•With all the processing and manufacturing that fast food goes through, a lot of essential nutrients go missing. Fibers, vitamins, and minerals get destroyed during this process and what it leaves for you is just unhealthy fats and empty calories.Too vague of a claim to be meaningful. Try being more explicit so that one can debate or contest the argument.•Hamburgers are made in huge factories. And one hamburger can contain strips of beef from different cattle from different regions. This increases the risk of contamination as one sick cow in the batch can actually make hundreds of people fall sick in different locations of the country.So this is an argument against huge factories? Against mass production?•Health guidelines clearly state that people should not consume more than 2 grams of trans-fat a day. But when you consume fast food, such as French fries, you can actually end up consuming about 4-7 grams of trans-fat. This is way too much and definitely not good for your heart.Good thing that these foods are fried in a trans-fat free oil now.•Fast food restaurants add a lot of preservatives to keep their food looking fresh. If you want to find out how much of preservatives are present in fast food, try keeping a hamburger for a year. A customer has actually kept a hamburger for 12 years and it still looks all ready to eat. Preservatives aren't intrinsically unhealthy. There's actually nothing wrong with this, unless a preservative used is demonstrably shown to be unhealthy.•Almost everything that you consume in a fast food restaurant is processed; the taste of the original ingredients is destroyed. So, additives are added for giving flavor to the food. These include beef extract and sometimes they won’t even tell you which animal product is being used to give the flavor to your French fries. Again, what's wrong with processing? Also, do you understand that when it comes to selling animal products, everything is used and it's always been this way? It isn't news, anyone who owns a farm knows this.•Probably most of us have ended up with food poisoning at least once in our life after eating in a fast food restaurant. Raw meat, unhygienic conditions, and even strange employee behaviors (some of them have actually reported spitting into the food!) are only a few things that happen and are reported regularly. Eating anywhere will get you food poisoning at some point in your life.