Fast Food Environmental Hazzard

Another reason stop eating fast food -- it's killing the environment. Cooking fast foods release volatile organic compounds and fine particulates, including oils, fats, aliphatic hydrocarbons, poly-aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic amines, aldehydes and elemental carbon -- all of which goes into the atmosphere and contribute to climate change. According to Treehugger, cooking four hamburgers is the equivalent to driving a car for 1,000 miles -- in effect, this makes the combined pollution from fast food joints more dangerous than the output coming from some class of vehicles on the road.

Restaurants in general are also a huge drain on power. They suck an inordinate amount of energy in order to cook, maintain air conditioned eating space and constantly clean. Most restaurants hardly give a thought to controlling their power consumption, let alone the environmental impact of their business. Further, if you think of the waste that they are responsible for, the impact they have on diet -- which impacts the public health and public health spending -- you'd realize just how irresponsible they are as an industry.

Perhaps the restaurant industry is in need of evaluations and regulations of their environment and pubic health impact.

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