Fast Food Nation

Another book I read lately is Fast Feed Nation. It was not at all what I expected. It talked very little about fast food's effects on individuals - rather the focus was on fast food's effects on society, it's contributions not only to obesity but to poverty, poor food safety, crime, the widening gap between the poor and the rich, the powerful and the powerless. An unbridled market economy does not lead to positive societal ends for many, only for a few. Fast food has been an important influencer in creating systems where people are exploited and hurt, and a few benefit.

I'm pondering now how my own buying decisions can support something that is so destructive or I can choose to purchase what does something different. It is impossible not to support corporations at some level, but maybe, just maybe, I can support the ones doing the most good or the least wrongs.