The Catholic Social Teaching of Rights and Responsibilities talks about the common good and the personal responsibilities for all people. The fast food industry is not upholding the common good throguh their business practices when they are allowing such large discrepancies between the actual nutritional data of their products and their stated nutritional values. The people should be able to trust the companies that they are getting accurate data about what they are consuming and the companies are betraying this trust. This is important because the people should be able to trust the fast food industry that they are getting what they are being told and that this trust should not be betrayed.
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CST #4 - Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
The Catholic Social Teaching of the Option for the Poor and Vulnerable says that everyone including the poor and the vulnerable shoudl be given respect, dignity, and assistance, and they should be protected because they are the ones who are often struggling for survival and they do not not have the ability to protect themselves. This is important because fast food is often much cheaper than healthier foods and the poor are drawn to the availability and price of fast food but this is detrimental to the poor's health because when people are depending on fast food, they are consuming much unhealthy foods that do not offer the healthy amount of nutritional values and are hurting their own health and lives. This also affects the vulnerable, whiich are the children who are not able to form their own opinion about the fast food and are drawn into consuming fast food because of the large amoutn of advertising that takes advantage of their developing nature and essentially sacrifices their health in exchange for profits and loyal customers. CST #5 - The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers
The Catholic Social Teaching of the Digniy of Work and the Rights of workers talks about how it is necessary for workers to receive respect for the work that they are doing, and that workers should be compensated a just wage, as well as conditions that are not dangerous to the worker as well as other worker benefits. This is important because often in the fast food industry, workers are often treated as expendable labor and they are not taken care of by the company. Instead, it is much like the industry from the 19th century when workers had to take care of themselves in substandard conditions, and that is unjust in the modern society. Workers in the fast food industry should receive just compensation for their efforts and be respected because they are all dignified human beings and deserve the same respect that all people do.CST #6 - Solidarity
The Catholic Social Teaching of Solidarity says that people should citizens have responsibilities and that they should work together for the common benefit. This directly relates because the fast food industry depends on its customers and it should be a mutual beneficial relationship between the two because if the customers are taken care of, then they will keep on eating good and healthy fast food. This is currently a social justice issue because the fast food industry is not taking care of its customers in its responsibility for both just business practices as well as giving its customers the right information. Picture http://images.nymag.com/daily/food/31_fastfood_lgl.jpgCST#7 - Care for God's Creation
As Christians we are obligated and required to be stuwards of our planet and our planet's childeren. In the fast food industry, the world's population of cattle is being gathered to provide for our food. This is not terrible but big fast food has disgraced the way that cattle have been raised and the way that they are prepared to be slaughtered. In the long feedlots with thousands of cattle, meat production companies have created disgusting environments for the animals where their food trays are only feet away from their manure troughs. This quickly spreads disease but also harms our fragile ozone layer that is severly damaged by the massive amounts of carbon dioxide emissions that come from the manure. http://fransonchiropractic.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/cow-feed-lot.jpg
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