When do you stop eating?

The fast food industries biggest fears are sickness and sell drops. The question is why does it take for someone to become sick or a discovery about the food products for people to start thinking about what they eat.

 Everybody remembers the "Pink Slime" rumor about Mcdonalds in 2012. The rumor was that Mcdonalds was using trimmings of  left over beef. These trimmings are used in dog and chicken food. After the rumor Mcdonalds sales did drop but, not from the "Pink Slime". You would hear everybody ranting about how they wouldn't eat Mcdonalds anymore because the slime wasn't real food and that could not possibly be healthy. There have health problems presented about Mcdonals way before the "Pink Slime" incident like how it is unhealthy and people should not eat it because to much of it could lead to obesity. Not surprisingly the statement was ignored and did not get nearly as much attention as the pink slime did.

Recently the Mexican grill Chipotle has had an E.Coli outbreak and it has everybody second guessing their next trip to their "favorite" eatery. There has been cases of the E.Coli outbreaks in 9 states resulting in sickness and 20 hospitalizations. And to no surprise no one wants to eat it. Chipotle is one of the healthier choices when trying to grab a bite to eat, but this is not the first unhealthy thing to be found at Chipotle. Recently Chipotle has stopped using GMO's in their food, but what about all the times they were using them? Why didn't anybody stop eating there then. Although a lot of fast food places use GMO's in their food it does not make it any less harmful. Why does it take something  to be deadly, in order for people to think about what they are consuming?


 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/02/01/mcdonalds-announces-end-to-pink-slime-in-burgers/
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/12/chipotle-e-coli-numbers-drop/#.VnGiMHarTDc
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-04/chipotle-says-more-cases-may-be-reported-in-e-coli-outbreak
http://business.time.com/2012/02/01/mcdonalds-drops-pink-slime-from-hamburger-meat/
http://fortune.com/2015/12/04/chipotle-e-coli-outbreak-expands/