Bolivia is McDonald's Free!

The global effects that the Fast Food industry creates are often forgotten with how dependent the U.S has become on the convenience, affordability that Fast Food restaurants provide. This dependency is often contributed to how well the Fast Food industry can market their products. When you flip on the t.v. every other commericial is fast food, "Burker King's famous Wopper!" "Grab a McDonald's Snack Wrap when your on the go!" These often comical commericials bombard the public with images of juicy burgars made with the "freshest" ingredience and made fresh to order. This article (http://www.topix.com/forum/food/fast-food/TDH1NBMR558L62L48) is about Bolivia becoming the first McDonald's-free Latin American nation. 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed for the purposes of building exactly 8  McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. Most of this destroyed forest was located in Brazil but a good portion runs through Bolivia. Either way, Bolivia went under great scrutiny and critisizm by Libertarians and "rightists" who defend fast food buisnesses by basically crediting them with cultural diversity and wide consumer choice. The article seemed interesting and definatly relevant to many of the same horrid truths expressed in Schlosser's FFN. This article was easy to read and had some interesting info on some of the economic and cultural effects of expanding our homegrown fast food problem and imposed across the planet.