Fast Food Nation: Ch. 4 Questions

What legal issues have been involved with fast food franchises? Encroachment, inflated prices, bankruptcies and termination. In what particular legal action has the Subway fast food franchise been involved? Encroachment.

Chapter 2 Questions

Discuss the fast food industry's marketing to children and explore the ethics of targeting children, especially as they relate to advertising in schools. To thoroughly address this prompt your response will need to be at least a paragraph long.(wasn't here this day.) Fast food restaraunts target children in many different ways. One way that McDonald's had was making a cartoon show. These cartoon characters are still seen all over McDonald's. These different techniques I do not believe are ethical.children are excited very easily and when they hear and see commercials they want to see the different things in person. And get the free toys that are offered in children meals.

Chapter 1 Questions

How is the 'American world view' embodied in the fast food industry? People think of the us as a fast paced, fat nation and fast food just shows how true that is. Chapter 1: What elements of Southern California "culture" contributed to and encouraged the development of fast food restaurants? the fast paced highway development. the new crowd of people flocking there. the young population. and the fast paced life that was going on all around the country.

Chapter 3 Questions

Why haven't fast food workers unionized and what tactics have management used to defeat union efforts? I think unions haven't organized firstly because of the opposition to it. Many thing that unions are only needed in some industries. Unions are usually also shot down by management who does not want to have tonight unions after they have formed they fight them before. Management has had many different attics in different places to fight the union origination.

Source #1

Summary: The state now has reason to belive that they executed an innocent man. Cameron Willingham was convicted and given the death penalty for killing his 3 children in a house fire. Cameron had eventually got tired of them saying he was guilty and wanted to avoid the death penalty so he said he did it when in reality he was innocent. After a couple of years Texas Forensic Science Commission reveived a report saying that Willingham was convicted on the basis of unsound testimony.

Central Argument: The state convicted and killed an innocent man.

Two Assertions: state killed an innocent man. Convicted on unsound testimony.

Source #4

This article is about a man named Troy Davis. It states that because of the data presented in the June 2010 hearing, it was clear that the federal district court would rule against Davis. People involved in the jury felt like the anti death penalty group were "fed a bunch of nonsense" by their leadership and they belived it. This article is basically an argument about wheather or not Davis is guily.

Food Inc. (Extra Credit)

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Central Argument :
Large corporations are now controlling our food system. These corporations make there farmers abuse the animals and use genetic engineering to speed up the growing process for these animals. The government says they are for us and protecting us but they are allowing these corporations "poision" us.

Assertions :
- A few companies are now running our entire food system.
- In 1978 The FDA performed 50,000 inspections in 2006 there were only around 10,000.
- The companies argue why wait 3 months for a animal to mature when you can do it in 1 1/2 months
- When the food companies have a problem they look for high-tech substitutions that will allow the system to survive but never fix it.