Ocean Plastic, Heart Disease, Fast Food And Developing Nations

     Most fast food companies use plastics, styrofoam, plastic straws and other non biodegradable materials, much of which ends up in the oceans. Most of these companies do nothing regarding having less non biodegradable packaging. Some of these companies do provide healthy food choices and are taking some steps towards having more environmentally friendly packaging. Unfortunately, this usually applies only towards what they do in developed countries. Their standards are different in developing nations. If people care about heart disease and overall health, and if people care about the poisoning of the oceans by plastic and other non biodegradable materials, they will advocate for food corporations to have one high standard for both developed and developing nations.
      Food corporations need to move away from plastic straws, other plastics, styrofoam, and other non biodegradable materials across the board, in every single country in which they operate. Plastic and other non biodegradable contaminants that enter the oceans from far away places are killing the same Pacific Ocean and other oceans upon which all nations depend.
      Food corporations may argue that healthy food choices and changes in packaging materials are too costly to implement in all countries. The true cost of unhealthy foods and the trashing of the oceans is enormous. It is a cost the public bears, not the food corporations.