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  1. Jan 2016
    1. Over the past five years, the Fast Food Restaurants industry has struggled with consumer preferences moving away from unhealthy foods and a saturated food-service landscape that has kept prices low.

      it is hard for restaurants to get healthy food at a low price that is low enough to get a positve income and profit off of it

    1. Fast food restaurants continued to target black and Hispanic youth, populations at high risk for obesity and related diseases.

      these races and the youth age range is the main category that that risk disease, weight gain and an unhealthy life because they lack knowledge of what is being put into theirs bodies.

    2. McDonald's spent 2.7 times as much to advertise its products as all fruit, vegetable, bottled water, and milk advertisers combined.

      they are promoting these unhealthy products more than healthy ones put together as a whole.

    3. A total of $4.6 billion was spent on all advertising by fast food restaurants in 2012

      a high percentage of there earnings are spend to promote more of the product and to sell more of it

    1. Nearly half (48.2%) of the 3 million hourly workers who were at or below the federal minimum in 2014 were ages 16 to 24

      we, younger employees receive pay at the wage of 7.25 because we are less educated and experienced than others that are older and are ore certified for these position.

    2. 73% of people favored an increase in the federal minimum to $10.10 an hour

      even tho some places are making the minimum 15 dollars, they are settling for $10.10 per hour.

  2. Dec 2015
    1. new government data show schools in four more states have since put aside concerns and resumed buying the controversial product

      4 more schools have joined the movement to start adding the pink slime into the food that they serve to the students

    2. Kids are going back to school and so is the ground beef filler dubbed “pink slime.”

      the old ingredient "pink slime" is being added back into school lunches.