Every month or so, there is an article in the papers about how unhealthy the UK population is. These range from horror stories about our kids becoming flabby, lethargic worms to fad diets that endanger your health, with the occasional side issue such as 'dangerous' amounts of colouring in tikka masalas, and food induced allergies.
So what is portrayed in the papers is a malaise of epidemic proportions. They are of course exaggerating for good copy, but there is a grain of truth buried among the lies and sensationalism. We DO eat too much shit, we DO too little exercise, people DO fall for fad diets advertised by actors in white coats.
The problem, of course, isn't helped by capitalism, because it requires us to work for longer hours to work for the corporate machine, leaving us less and less time to cook our own food or go jogging or do some other exercise. Our increasingly ineffectual education system piles more and more work onto our children, and this combined with a parent's fear of letting their child outside (Sensationalist media again, with their bigged-up reports of murderers and peadophiles) Meaning our kids rarely leave the house.
So what is capitalism's solution to this mess? those kindly CEOs at companies like Nestle, Danone and McDonald's, those same people who act like drug dealers in the third world, provide you with instant meals that require little or no preperation, meaning you have more time to slave away at that desk or production line for your oh-so-benevolent masters. Really.
What you get instead is food that tastes good and is fast but very little else. Except for a lot of fat, sugar and salt, which wouldn't be all that bad if it was offset by roughage, vitamins, carbohydrates and exercise.
Not to mention that this shit is ruthlessly pushed at you at every opportunity, and that very little care is taken in it's preperation, the wages are subsistence at best in this industry. Inferior products are often used, stuff which would be thrown away even at a 'greasy spoon' resturaunt.
Other solutions have been proposed, such as 'healthy' diets, mandatory exercise, veganism, vegitarianism, a tax on unhealthy foods, etc. All this refuses to face one single fact; people are bastards when it comes to their eating habits. Numerous attempts have been made at changing people when they eat, but NO attempts have been made to change WHAT people eat. By this I mean making the usual stuff they eat healthier, without extra effort on their part.
So this is my proposal: we make fast food healthy food as well. Because unless the human race in general stops being 'on the go' there will not be a change in eating habits anytime soon. it really is quite simple. beefburgers are to be made with real beef and not hooves, lips and testicles. the cheese in burgers and pizzas to be made with real cheddar and mozarella respectively, not the sweepings from the factory floor. You get the picture.
You could do all this under capitalism, and I believe some do. But it's far cheaper to simply scrape whatever you can off the floor and machines, wrap in some fancy paper and sell it off as food. And amazingly, people will buy it. Because people are not only low on time, they're low on money as well. so instead of investing in themselves and buying the healthier fast food when it's available, they grab the bargains and sign away their health as well.
Under communist society, priorites will change. It's unlikely that fast food will disappear completely, but it is a definite possibility that it will get healthier, and that the sweepings will remain on the floor and in the bin where they belong.
Real beefburger anyone?
That would have been one of the righteous 'workers'. If it wasn't I'm seriously worried 
I think mine was something near 3800. And yet I've always been fit. (Well, I look it - the fact that I couldn't run a mile if I tried is irrelevant. It's all part of being a student.) 5' 11" and 11st. 6 of pure muscle! Oh yeah! :P
