If people boycotted franchise fast food because their expansive business practices instigate globalization and oligarchical collectivism to the point that restaurants closed and people lost work, shortly new restaurants supplying what people desire would replace them. When goods and services are grown and manufactured locally, locals benefit from opportunity, often resulting in happiness.
When goods are largely delivered via a few institutions from a few locations, only few benefit and the many become dependent. Oligarchical collectivism is malignant and often presented in benign forms like burgers and fries. Processes in the preparation of factory food, ranging from the inclusion of hormones, pesticides and preservatives, to the engineering and serving of new genetically modified organisms, benefit globalization, institutional dependency and oligarchical collectivism.
I have formulated a list of inexpensive alternatives to fast food franchise restaurants assuming that one is currently incapable of growing food and that if one will eat the franchise fast food one will eat anything. Franchise fast food restaurants offer meals with more flair than flavor and more savings than nutrients. Often these alternatives might only be purchased at franchise grocery stores, but at least they offer some wholesome and locally grown foods. In order to localize one must first stop supporting institutions that globalize.
If time is less crucial and does not necessarily equal money, there is always opportunity to forage on real foods available in North America. Pine nuts, acorn flour, dandelion greens, wild onions, berries, cattails, pine needle tea, chicory tea, rose hip tea and all sorts of various local fauna to snack on. In the long run one might remain healthier foraging than eating franchise fast food, the economy and world might also be better off by gathering, raising and serving food locally rather than globally, for as far as I can tell, everything begins with food.
"And if the agricultural economy collapses, then the economy of the rest of the United States sooner or later will collapse. The farmers are the number one market for the automobile industry in the United States, the automobile industry is the number one market for steel. So if the farmer's economy continues to decline as sharply as it has in recent years, then I think you would have a recession in the rest of the country. So I think the case for the government intervention is a good one."
~President John F. Kennedy
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