Game Plan

Having looked through the writing options, I am going to be writing an essay on the relationship between technology and the fast food industry and its underlying effect on health, employment, education and the economy at large.
I chose this prompt/topic because having read through a few chapters of the fast food nation, I became intrigued by the influence that technological advances has had within the food industry, its relationship with the auto industry, real estate industry, its impact on education, on health, as well as its underlying effect on the economic balance of not just the United States of America but the world at large.
Specifically, my topic of choice is going to be Technological Advances in the fast food industry: Its underlying effect on American health and economy.
After much consideration of my audience which specifically right now is my class, who are mostly young adults, I am going to be more focused on how the technological advances within the fast food industry as well as other related industries, has led to a de-skilled population and endangered its health as well.
The present generation/population, is a less educated population, in comparison with a few decades ago and this has helped fuel the economic downturn. This is evidenced in the number of laid off employees of various sects who are finding it difficult to be gainfully employed in other sects due to having no other viable skills apart from the experience gained within their previous employment which most often than not cannot be used in other areas.
Advances in technological abilities within the fast food industry, has also facilitated a wide spread of infectious diseases, through the industrialized and centralized mass production of not just fast food, but food in general. This is also seen in the rearing of the food sources. Technology is now a vector of diseases. The mass production and globalization of these food sources, also makes it almost impossible to trace a specific source of pathogens. These advancement has also aided the fast food industry and the food industry at large with the use of flavor additives, which have proven to be detrimental to the health of particular people who are susceptible to the constituents of these additives and possibly to the general populace.
My thesis shall be supported with the use of scholarly sources from journals, a book (fast food nation precisely), as well as reliable web sites. During the course of this essay, I would employ the use of comparison and contrasting, cause and effects, illustrations as well as definition of key terms associated with my topic.
With reference to further research on my chosen topic, I will be focusing considerable time on the center for disease control and prevention to get more data on food borne pathogenic diseases and their outbreak as well as their methods of detection and publishing of these. I will also be looking up specific information from the United States department of labor for labor statistics.