Thursday, May 12, 2011

Hidden Danger

In schlosser's 'Fast Food Nation", Chapter five why the fries taste so good; the key word i had pulled out was hidden danger. Hidden danger meaning; what is bad for us is acceptable to our taste buds. When a red flag should be waving in our brain it is not going off because to us these harmful chemicals taste good. Could it be because the Fast Food Industry uses the three main taste that humans accept are sweet salty and fat? could it be that the covering the salt with cheese makes it addicting to us? Our tongue uses taste buds as danger receptors, yet while we are eating this food we are being blinded by the taste to real dangers. This is so because through the genetically engineering of these foods the taste becomes natural to us. The psychology of it all is that we see a lot of people eating the food so we think it's safe, ads being shown on the tv, give us the thought it will make us happy. We have our trust. on impulse we eat this food without thinking and this is dangerous illusions does not occur to us. These corporations are able to make a profit off our cravings through our trust and instant gratification.

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