EPILOGUE: HAVE IT YOUR WAY

MARY BETH WILK

SHAYNE TAYLOR

DALE LASATER• He owns the Lasater Ranch

• It occupies 30,000 achers

• They are working to change how American beef is produced

• He set up a company to sale organic, free-range, grass-fed beef.

RICH CONWAY• He runs Conway Red Top Restaurant

• Hamburger patties are still formed everyday by hand, using fresh, not frozen, ground beef

• Then buns come from a bakery

• 200 potatoes are peeled every morning for the fries

SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISTS

• The annual cost of obesity alone is now twice as large as the fast food industry’s total revenues

• The great challenge now facing countries throughout the world is how to find proper balance between the efficiency and the amorality of the market

WHAT TO DO• Congress can not require fast food chains to provide

job training to there workers

• Other countries have safer food supplies than the US

• More Americans are severely harmed every year by food poisoning than illegal drug use.

HOW TO DO• The fast food industry spends millions of dollars

every year on lobbying and billions on mass marketing.