I recently read Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, and found that the main focus was to explain how bad America’s eating disorder is, but Pollan did not go into the reasons why people choose to eat so poorly. Why do people choose to eat fast food?

People choose to eat fast food for many reasons. It is not just the poor people who are eating fast food, it varies from the richest to the poorest. Many people In the United States today find that fast food restaurants are very convenient for every day meals. For me I tend to eat McDonalds’s or any fast food restaurant two to three times a week. Statistics show that on average 44% of people eat fast food in a week and only 28 percent never eat fast food.

Although fast food is convenient, that is not the only reason people choose to eat at the restaurants. Many poor people cannot afford to buy expensive meals. So what do they do? They stop at the local McDonalds or Wendy’s or wherever. Fast food is cheap and convenient for those who are low income families. Another reason for some individuals to eat fast food is the laziness that some people have. Many people will say “I do not want to cook” or even “I do not know how to cook” so they end up pursuing a fast food restaurant for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

These are some of the many reason why many people today choose to eat fast food.

Jared Jensen

Hyde School