2.+Global+Realization

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 * Fast Food chains are the first multinational businesses to arrive in a country when it first opens its markets.
 * Franchising overseas has become a part of American Foreign policy even (intertwined with the US state department). The department has even gone as far as publishing studies of overseas franchising opportunities. Also they help businesses find partners overseas in order to better introduce the business to the target country.
 * To people overseas fast food chains represents America and brings promise and hope to the people of promise and modernization.
 * Quick facts: Mcdonalds operates in 120 countries. They open five restaurants everyday, only one of which is opened in America. They earn the majority of their profits from over seas business.
 * Obesity in children is becoming prevalent especially in China and Japan where traditional diets of food and rice are being abandoned.
 * Fast food chains are making the environment abroad even worse, as they help countries industrialize they too are polluting at a quicker rate.

__Summarizing:__ So chapter ten is about what its named, global realization. It narrows in on the point of when we are eating from Mcdonalds and supporting their franchise; what else are we really supporting? You are supporting a business that is hurting the American economy by outsourcing the majority of their resources to other countries. Can our country really afford to have even less money put into our infrastructure? So overall when you are eating that fast food you bought the other day from lunch, realize you are supporting big business to further outsource their company and money away from America. Also you are supporting pollution of other environments that does eventually come back and affect ours.

__In depth summary:__ Pending

__Counter Opinion:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Overall the counter opinion here is that these fast food chains aren’t a cause or hurting America. The argument is that the fast food industries overseas is providing them with enough money to continue to remain viable and open up and expand in America. Without the revenue overseas they argue that it would be impossible to keep expanding in America with such small profit margins. Also they argue that their modernization and way of doing things provides a safe model to newly established countries to build their business models off of. Overall they also defend themselves against the accusations that they are causing children overseas to become more over weight, the argument is that they don’t force these children to eat their food; it is always been the choice of the parent. Environmentally, most fast food corporations hold that they have aways had safe ways of disposing and maintaining their own waste (little information has been given enough into what methods they use exactly).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Works Cited:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/fastfoodnation/chapters/chapter10.htm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.debate.org/debates/Fast-Food-Does-More-Harm-Than-Good/1/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.debate.org/debates/Fast-food-chains-and-junk-food-should-be-banned-from-__] [|__school-cafeterias./1/__]