It should be stopped and it should be stopped right now. I do my part by eating slow. For example, I eat breakslow

and you people should too. Try it sometime. I think you'll like it ;)

I think fast food should stop!!! It's unhealthy, they're bad jobs, and YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOES ON IN A SLAUGHTERHOUSE!!!!! I used to work in a slaughterhouse (I was stupid back then) and I had to do horrible things to animals!!! IT WAS TERRIBLE!!!!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF THE THINGS I'VE SEEN!!! THE THINGS I'VE DONE!!! YOU SHOULD BE THERE!!! Imagine a pig being chopped up, blood removed, and packed into a pattie, and served with pickles, ketchup, and mustard!!! Imagine a chicken being chained to shackles upside-down on a conveyor belt, dipped into an electrified bath of water, taken to a blade that cuts off their heads, and then cut up to bits served as your chicken nuggets. With that said, five words: FAST FOOD COMPANIES ARE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fast food "restaurants" offer consumers a convenient, cheap, and engineered-to-taste meal. At one point, the benefits outweighed the costs; namely, the costs of obesity and reliance on instant gratification, not to mention the costs of overfarming, genetic manipulation of animals, and advertising aimed at children. Now, I believe, that's beginning to change. We need to obliterate the fast food culture by making the costs overwhelming; we need to market health more often than bad choices; we need to market the delayed gratification of cooking, or eating well slowly rather than quickly.

The main issue is that the United States has a culture, amplified by psychological practices in advertising, of unrealistic expectations of getting quality goods quickly and cheaply, yet without any negative side affects. We want to buy into a workout program where we can lose weight without getting off the couch. We want our clothes to be cheap and sweatshop-free, our restaurants to have a dollar menu, healthier options, and pay their farmers well. And that's not happening. We need to spend more, wait longer, and keep our minds open.

Yes. Look at the recent statistics about obesity and you will see my point. Fast food culture is leading Americans down the wrong path and should be stopped. On the other hand, if I was working for Slim-fast or Nutrisystem, I would keep my mouth shut. :)

Man! It'll, like, kill you. It also makes you soopa fat and weigh 220023 pounds.

If you're so against fast food, then don't eat it. That's what I do. I don't eat McDonald's unless it's the only place to eat at, and even then I get the "healthiest" thing on the menu. But honestly, fast food chains should try creating healthier menus, since some of the food they serve is just wrong in so many ways.

Each individuals personal eating habits are their own decision.

No adult should be stopped from buying and eating whatever foods they choose. Neither should any vendor be forced to accommodate the whims of the state; as has been done in New York restaurants with respect to restrictions on hydrogenated oils and portion sizes.

Fast food used to mean just that: food that was served quickly. It has come to mean food that is generally unhealthy. There is no reason why this reputation should persist, should the foods healthfulness improve. If consumer demand shifts to a more healthful variety of food, then vendors will respond to this. Then we can expect fast food culture to become both convenient and healthy.

This is really a personal decision.

With america being so busy and not being able to cook something to eat its normally we are going out to eat. With out fast food we as americans would not know what to do when there is not enough time in the day to prepare 3 meals a day to everyone in the family, the world is in enough chaos as it is no need for the things that we live for to be taken away

There's nothing wrong with fast food, as in food which can be prepared and eaten quickly. It's actually very convenient nowadays when most people would rather spend time doing something other than cooking or waiting for someone to cook for them.

The only problem with fast food is that in many places it's associated with junk food, as if only burgers and fried chicken could be served fast.

In Japan, for example, fast food can be quite nutritional and varied. Check out Sukiya's menu, which includes beef, fish, curry, salads and more. This thing can be impressively faster than McD and won't get you hooked on ketchup.

I love fast food and most people in the world love it. cheap, quick, and just fuckin' good.

why stop it? to end happiness? sure, it may be healthier, but why live a long dreadful life when you can live a slightly shorter but much more fun life.

Yummy for my tummy!

Why not? I mean it's bad for you if you eat too much, but doesn't everyone want a treat every now and then? I mean to stop fast food culture would be like stopping a very strong influence. But would it be a good decision to do it? I mean at least at some of those places you can something kind of healthy like salad. Imagine what people would eat without Fast food. Probably icecream right out of the carton.

Fast food taste awesome and i take them for lunch when i am in a good mood for good food :D

Anything with profit behind it is evil and should be stopped.

no way mc donalds are on a roll and i love fast food and i will die if they close it down.

No, it ought to stop, but not be stopped, if that makes sense.

What I mean is, the responsibility falls on the consumer. We must begin to be responsible consumers if we expect anything corporate to change in response to our desires.

Fast food isn't a culture, it's a business model.

And a very successful one.

I believe that they should pay their employees more, but they pay what is legal for them to pay, and they do many very good things like setup scholarships and offer advancements to young people, so I can forgive them the low wages.

And as far as obesity. As liberal as I may be (actually more independant, but this country is so conservative it's the tag I'm given and I'll take it) I do not believe what a person eats is anyone's responsibility but their own. If fast food makes you fat, don't eat it.

It takes less time to make a sandwich than to wait in line at a fast food restaraunt.

A dozen eggs cost as much as a McEgg whatever.

A lb of hamburger is cheaper than a Whopper.

There is no excuse.

A large portion of Americans are children (I'm talking about the adults) who never learned how to eat like a grown up who doesn't have a 16 year old's metabolism, and never learned to say no to stuff they want right now simply because something else is better for them. This is partly societies fault, but a majority the individual's. Obesity isn't a disease, it's a chosen lifestyle.

Fast food for some may mean fats and a lot of exercising to get rid of it, while for others, a way to indulge maybe after a hard days' work.

Now why was fast food created in the first place then? Its because everyone wants things done fast, and apparently in food too. We have approached the stage, for some, that to them, every minute, every second, means an opportunity to do something else more productive that even in the simpliest of waiting for food can be something they cannot bear to stand, thus they seek for fast food.

Now for the question, should the fast food culture be stopped? No, for 2 reasons- preferences and the lag of time. You can't stop someone from indulging themself in a hamburger, you can't get food done in 1 minute like fast food can. It all boils down to preferences and how much you're time you're willing to give out.

Even if we wanted to stop this fast food culture... How do we stop the fast food culture...?

of course, many fast food firms are in crisis as compared with before centuries in the aftermath of the moderner' new menu what is called 'Well-Being.'

but,we've got to recall that we live in capitalism society.

till the gap between rich and poor is vanished(you know,it's impossible.)a fast food never stop,

even in communism society like north Korea,fast food concept recently branched out into north Korea society.

though it is used by only some ruling class,red aristocrat,

but this case show us that fast food never stop.

fast food is already changed and rather adapt to new well-being culture. who can stop this food style in this century?

if you decline that you never eat a fast food,

the third world people,poor class people eat it.

if you'd like to stop distribution of fast food.

you just must pray to all people never eat a fast food.