Why Do Fast Food Outlets Have Higher Crime Rates?
1. The terror, fright, agony and anger experienced by mammals being murdered in slaughterhouses is manifested in higher secretions of adrenaline into their blood stream and muscle cells. This adrenaline, the links of whose molecule chains are only somewhat broken up by cooking, remain in the animals' flesh and continue to act as anger, terror and fright in the humans eating their flesh. At fast food outlets, many are consuming such flesh.
2. The vibrations of those handling, cooking, and serving food also enter the food. Fast food employees in the US have not been allowed to unionize. For the most part they receive minimum wage with no pension, no health insurance, no other benefits. Their working conditions create anger.
3. Besides animal flesh, artificial colors and preservatives have negative effects on behavior. "Artificial colors and preservatives added to food can influence how a child behaves, according to a 2009 article published in the "European Journal of Clinical Nutrition." Foods that contain large amounts of saturated fats, trans fats or sodium can also play a role."
4. In their attempt to market to as many people as possible, fast food outlets are often built in poor neighborhoods in which the rate of violent crime is higher. Eric Schlosser writes in Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal: "the vast majority of restaurant robberies occur in fast food restaurants because they are open late, staffed by teenagers, full of cash and convennient."
5. Those who live in poorer neighborhoods have less access to full service grocery stores, to fresh fruits and vegetables, not only because these stores avoid the crime, and because the poor have fewer transportation options.
6. Drive through queues lead to impatience, and in some cases to actions such as throwing the food back at the clerk.
7. Fast food outlets are more easily accessible for desperate people resorting to theft.
8. Fast food drive through queues are not conducive to personal service. Customers are upset when exceptions can't be made.
The Bureau Of Labor Statistics estimates that the rate of assaults at limited-service restaurants is more than twice as high as at full-service restaurants
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfar0005.pdf 9. The assembly line character of food food outlets ieads to less personal contact with the customer, more objectification. Those who sense they are being objectified are more likely to have an angry response.
From the Huffington Post:
Melodi Dushane... demanded nuggets instead of hashbrowns. When she was met with a "no," Dushane used her fists instead of her words, punched the McDonald's drive-thru employee and ended up in court with a vandalism charge.
Examples Of Violence:
From the online edition of Slate:
"In January, Toledo, Ohio, resident Melodi Dushane punched out a McDonald's drive-through window when she was told they didn't sell Chicken McNuggets in the morning. Another woman recently drove through a crowd of people in a McDonald's parking lot, injuring four. In 2008, a Los Angeles man punched a 16-year-old girl in the face at a McDonald's after she complained about him cutting the line. A Wendy's customer reportedly assaulted a female clerk at a drive-through window in 2007 after she didn't tell him to "have a nice day." The list goes on. Spike Jonze even made a fast-food beating the centerpiece of his music video for Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" "
From the online edition of Livestrong:
"Artificial colors and preservatives added to food can influence how a child behaves, according to a 2009 article published in the "European Journal of Clinical Nutrition." Foods that contain large amounts of saturated fats, trans fats or sodium can also play a role."
Below are links to a few of many thousands of articles on the correlation between fast food outlets and crime, or the correlation between meat and anger.
Obesity too is correlated to fast food eating.
Isocaloric studies indicate the average vegan weighs 23 lbs. less than nonvegetarians.
McRage
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2011/04/mcrage.htm *
10 bizarre fast food crimes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/25/people-addicted-to-fast-food_n_ *
Deadly night shift at fast food outlets
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3993076 *
Effects of junk food on children's behavior
http://www.livestrong.com/article/369049-the-effects-of-junk-food-bad-be/ /*
Eric Schlosser author of Fast Food Nation
https://books.google.com/books?id=dU13X_AM_N8C&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq=fas *
http://www.westonaprice.org/uncategorized/violent-behavior-a-solution-in/ *
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