Profile: Fast food industry and its impact on consumers and the cattle, agricultural and meat packing industries

From: Morning Edition (NPR) | Date: March 12, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

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Profile: Fast food industry and its impact on consumers and the cattle, agricultural and meat packing industries

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

BOB EDWARDS, host:

Grabbing a quick bite from a fast food restaurant is the American way and there's more to those burgers and fries as NPR's Madeleine Brand found out.

MADELEINE BRAND reporting:

About a quarter of the US population, that's 70 million people, will eat a fast food meal today. By the end of the year, Americans will have spent more than $110 billion on burgers and fries, more than they'll spend on ...

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