BAD MEAT CONTAMINANTS IN FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS - Essay Example

The food item that has to be discussed in this perspective is meat. Fast food industry as known is a rapidly growing industry, and in order to meet their demands they made many changes in the usual process, as they considerably altered the slaughter and meat packing processes. Millions of diced beef pieces are demanded by the fast food restaurants everyday in order to meet their demands of hamburger patties. Meat packing industries first situated in the cities but with the rapid grown sale of hamburgers, conditions are created that meat packing plants are shifted to the remote areas(Segal, 1998 pg 5).

Now in remote areas as compared to the cities no skilled labor is available, who slaughter the animal and make meat without considering the health and safety issues which as result augments the contamination of meat. In most of the cases it is observed that fast food restaurants employed large number of underage unskilled labors, just to save their initial cost but that multiplies the contamination of meat because they do not how to cook and how to store and preserve cooked and non-cooked meat.

If we analyze this issue in the broader spectrum then we comprehend that meat contamination can be caused because of many factors like biological, chemical and physical. Meat contaminated because of biological factors like bacteria and parasites, because of chemical factors that are caused because of poor performance of workers, poor cleaning conditions and sanitation like food additives, bleaches and in last because of physical factors which are again caused because of the sluggish labor like dirt and broken crockery, because fits created when the joint is applied after the crockery breaks germs gets accumulated there (Schlosser, 2002 pg 4) Meat is also contaminated through cross contamination process, means to say that as we know, working load is so much on the cook or