Where did dinner come from?

   Today after school, I only had an hour before I had to be somewhere so I grabbed a quick bite to eat at one of my favorite fast food resturants, Wendy's. Lately I have found myself over my head in exspenses and have resulted to a dollar menu diet. I eat fast food for at least 2 out of 3 meals a day. I know that it is unhealthy but being independent from my parents mostimes it is all I can afford. However, this fast food lifestyle is all too farmiliar for me because growing up my mother did not like to cook.
   As I took a bite out of my number 1 with cheese, I began to think about this assignment. As a former vegetarian I cannot help but to be conscience about where my food comes from. I know that the meat in my cheese burger is not from a sunny green-grass farm somewhere in Kentucky. I have not taken the time to research Wendy's in particur, but I am aware of how most of fast food beef is manufactured.
   My only guess is that of what I have seen on Food Inc. where cows have no room to move, stand in their own feces all day and eat an unatural diet of corn and antibiotics. I know that just one burger can be cotaminated with thousands of cows which dramtically increases the risk of diseased cotaining meat. my nerves are calmed however by eating the "all natural" fries with "real sea salt" because that just sounds healthier than other french fries. Even so, I choose to eat Wendy's because it seems to be of higher quality than other fast food chains. But as I write this I am starting to feel a bit ignorant and feel like I should do some research to investigate that.
   I am going to do my research paper on the fast food industry and i want to focus on the harmful way the food is produced and also the health risks assosiated with eating fast food.
   Then you have to take in to account the lettuce, onions and tomatos, which was probably from a regular farm, but possibly was genetically altered? Paranoid much? I am not sure because you can never be sure in these days. The cheese on my burger is probably from some supplier somewhere and made in a factory- not a farm. The bread? I'm sure it is from a similiar place as the cheese. Not that i care about that, i don't expect there to be a bakery in the back of Wendy's.
   I hope through my research paper that I will know exactly where my fast food comes from... or maybe I should hope I don't find out.