How many Americans a day does McDonald's feed?
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Far too many.\nIt's shameful and it's gross.
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The simple answer is that we eat more and move less.  But why is that happening?\nAs someone else suggested, Fast Food Nation gives a wonderful profile on the rise of fast food in American and what changes have taken place at the same time that the author attributes to the fast food industry.\nBasically, in America, we have lots of food available and it's not very expensive.  Restaurants make it easy to super size--even non-fast food restaurants often offer a larger portion (like 16 oz steak rather than 10 or 12 oz steak) for only a small amount more.  Portion sizes in restaurants are much larger than they were 30 years ago.  Soda is the drink of choice--with 10 calories per sip, a couple of glasses have as much calories as a piece of cake (and the refills are FREE). And then we eat the cake too.  Schools now offer soda and junk food in vending machines in order to get promotional money from the companies placing the machines.  Physical education in schools has been scaled way back.\nBecause of the fear-based society we live in, mothers don't want their children playing outside where they can be snatched by child molesters so they stay inside and watch TV and play video games and eat junk food and learn to be inactive.  Kids don't walk to school anymore; they are driven both ways.  Buses stop at each driveway because kids don't/can't/won't walk to a central pick-up location.  When you are an inactive child, you grow up to be an inactive adult (spoken by one who knows).\nEverything has a drive-through--pharmacies, banks, restaurants (or they carry your food out to the car so you don't even have to walk to the door and back).  No one walks anywhere except those few people who walk for pleasure and exercise.\nPeople don't even walk their dogs anymore. They fence in the yard and let the animals run around.\nI could keep going, but you get the gist.
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If they ever go to McDonald's they probably do. They serve fries at McD's in Japan and everywhere else I've been.
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In 2003 (latest data I could find), the US transformed 779,617 thousand tonnes of oil, of which 516,216 thousand were imported, meaning that 66.2% of our consumption was imported.\n\nEdit: I found more recent information. In the week of May 26th the US processed 15,519 barrels of crude oil a day, of which 10,842 barrels were imported, yielding 69.8%. In addition, the US imported 4,277 barrels a day of already processed products.
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THat's a really broad question and completely impossible to answer on this forum.  There's lots wrong with Americans and there even more that's RIGHT with us.  Wal-Mart, while accused of pushing mom and pop stores out of the way, pour millions of dollars into the community and provide jobs (albeit some to illegals) to communities needing the influenece of retailers other than pawn shops and liquor stores.  McDonalds is only as unhealthy as the consumers lets it become.  Ronald isn't tackling you to the ground shoving fries and Big Macs down your throat, so it's all about choice.  Ahhh the beauty of America finally shines.  We have the freedom of choice and when people are given the options between things, that's where the rubber meets the road.  Our American values are challenged daily by an increasing number of sources so when a kid today doesn't know the difference between good and bad, it's not entirely his fault.  His parents own the blame as well as today's society.  Parents play the largest role in their kids lives and like it or not our country will be run by these kids in 30 years.  Attitude reflects leadership and for the last 25 years we've had less than stellar leadership in the White House and local governments.  Kids would rather be Allen Iverson than JFK or FDR (who is JFK & FDR they wonder?).  There's a lot wrong with our contry, but there's more right with it.  Freedom of speech, freedom to worship with little persecution (none would be a pipe dream), freedom to love across color boundries.  Oh yeah and we have baseball.  All is good in the land of God and baseball.
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America is a consumerist nation. We are raised to buy buy buy, and food is something that needs to bought and therefor eaten so we can buy more.
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Thanks to all the third world countries who supply our fast food chains with all the low grade beef to meet their demands, fast food chains can keep on selling the average american.  Quit sending us low grade beef, and maybe the fast food chains will go out of buisness and Americans will be forced to eat something else.  Don' believe me look at what it happening to the rainforests, and the problem that surrounds their economy.  Rainforest Action Network will supply you with what i just sumed up for you.
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usually it's once a day! if not twice for big eaters.
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It's different for everyone'\n\ntry www.fitday.com  it will help you show how many you need to eat and burn everyday
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Very simply.. more fast food jonts all over the place.. people just DEVOTED to eating. Yes, it is disgusting but that is the way the U.S. is NOW
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I hear you.  We Americans need to stop consuming so much (food, energy, products) and thinking only about ourselves and start thinking of others.  You're probably right when you say that so many around the world could be fed if we would just stop eating so much and learn to share what we have.\n\nOn the other hand, obesity is not just about eating.  It's about people using food to heal their emotional and psycological pain.  The problem with that is it's so temporary.  Whereas learning why we have the problems we have and how to solve them would be a tremendous turnaround in our society.\n\nIn spite of all the self-help books and talk shows out there, we are getting worse and worse.  We keep trying to heal ourselves, when what we really need to do is connect with the One who can heal us.
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People who are responcible for obisity...is our self.  Mcdonalds don't force us to eat their food.   Pizza joints don't force us to eat their food....its our own decision in how we treat our body...like smokers who choose to smoke.  People in america just have a thing to blame other people them themselvs.
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http://www.mcdonaldsallamerican.com/
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The truth is that it isn't what Americans are eating but the portions of it. Leave the US and go to any other fast food outlet be it in Europe or Asia and you won't find the same giant sizes.
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When ANYBODY thinks of American food, they think of McDonalds.  That's pretty bad.\nBetween all of the American eating dissorders, obesity, and fast food frenzy...I do agree that Americans are overfed and under nourished.
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I read that 1 out 8 Americans will work at Mcdonald's once in their lifetime.The average American will eat three hamburgers and four orders of fries this week. 90% of American children between ages three and nine will stop at a McDonald's this month. 12% of American workers have gotten a paycheck from McDonald's. \n\n10 percent of the American boy's calories come out of a soda can. If you can say "two all-beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun," and most of us can, you know how the selling of fast food has become part of the culture. \n\nBut did you know that the beef flavor comes from a chemical factory in New Jersey? Or that McDonalds, with more than 8000 private playlands, has transformed the art of marketing to children? Fast food has retooled our diets, but also the landscape of ranching and labor relations and real estate development.\n\nYou have to be especially careful when you eat in fast food restaurants. As the consumption of unhealthy This year Americans will spend over $110 billion on fast food more than they'll spend on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined.\n\n\n\n\nEvery day about one quarter of the U.S. population eats fast food.\n\n\n\n\nRoughly 12% of all American workers have worked at McDonald's.\n\n\n\n\nThe golden arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.\n\n\n\n\nChildren often recognize the McDonald's logo before they recognize their own name.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican children now get about one quarter of their total vegetable servings in the form of potato chips and French fries.\n\n\n\n\nThe typical teenage boy in the United States now gets about 10% of his daily calories from soda.\n\n\n\n\nThe rate of obesity among American children has doubled since the late 1970s.\n\n\n\n\nA fast food soda that sells for $1.29 costs the restaurant about ten cents, a markup of more than 1200 percent.\n\n\n\n\nMcDonald's is now the nation's largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes. It is the second-largest purchaser of chicken in the U.S.\n\n\n\n\nHundreds of local slaughterhouses used to supply the United States with beef; today thirteen large slaughterhouses supply most of the nation's beef.\n\n\n\n\nA typical fast food hamburger contains meat from dozens or even hundreds of cattle.\n\n\n\n\nBecause fast food is so highly processed, much of its flavor is destroyed, so the tastes of most fast food are manufactured at a series of special chemical plants in New Jersey.\n\n\n\n\nChicken McNuggets contain beef additives, while McDonalds French fries derive some of their flavor from "animal products."
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Normally 86,400 to 115,200 times per day.  But it is variable due to various factors like age, sex stature , activity, emotions etc. etc.