Fast Food & Media

Examine how fast food is portrayed in films, television, and advertising. Articles explore the cultural impact and representation of quick-service restaurants in popular media.

Advertising Fast Food and Junk food

The media has been up in arms about childhood obesity for some years now, so it was hardly a surprise that in 2006 the Office of Communications (OFCOM) annou...

Fast Food and Obesity

Fast food tends to get a lot of the blame for the rising levels of obesity across the world – especially the increase in obesity among kids. But is it fair...

Fast Food and the Environment

Fast food has become so ingrained in our culture that it’s hard to imagine a world without pre-packaged burgers, ready meals in little cardboard boxes, and...

Fast Food Firms and the Law

The UK is increasingly a very legislation heavy country, and with TV chefs and lobby groups getting in on the act, it was only a matter of time before fast f...

How Fast Food Outlets are Trying to be Healthier

With a call from the media for fast food outlets to be banned from anywhere close to schools in the UK, it seems like the beleaguered fast food industry has...

Junk Food in Schools

The issue of junk food being available in schools, whether through chocolate and crisps on sale in vending machines or fast food on school dinner menus, has...

LA Has Banned Any New Fast Food Joints

A ban on the building or opening of any new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles is being joined with a potential ‘Happy Meal Ban’ in an anti-fast...

Statins: Fast Food Shops Are Going to Give Out Drugs

People who are concerned about the amount of fast food they eat may have some good news if UK researchers suggestions to give out cheap and effective statin...

TV Chefs Against Junk Food

TV chefs have a lot to say on the subject of junk food, the most vociferous of all TV chefs being Jamie Oliver, who has mounted a crusade against junk food b...