Fast Food Nation Chapters 1-4

Just from the opening chapters of Fast Food Nation, I can't believe the sheer amount of pull that the restaurant business, especially fast food business has on the entire country and world's economy. If McDonald's was ever to go out of business or something, the meat industry would be thrown into an uproar, along with other company's such as Coca-Cola. It's sick that McDonald's "Golden Arches" are more recongnizable to the common American citizen than the cross. No other company in the world can say that 98% of their customers can recognize their mascot. I would have to say that the only other one on earth that could possibly say this would be Disney. Just from these chapters I am definitely going to have to look at my life and how I'm living it from now on, especially in regards to the corporations and restaurants I support and what they stand for morally and ethically.