Well with our economy already pretty substantially bad, raising fast food prices and making them be healthier would only come with government subsidization to fast food companies, and basically that wouldn't happen, or would be a "waste of money". But I mean, maintaining over 8,000 nuclear warheads is obviously more important than helping the 400,000 people dying of heart disease a year. Ha. Ha ha. Educating people is... Iffy. Everyone in the country knows that smoking and binge drinking extremely detrimental to ones health, and they are still used in the masses. I'm not sure what caused it, but every CVS location in my area has stopped selling cigarettes, with big posters advocating quitting where the cigarettes use to be and nicotine gum at the front counter. Like I said, I don't know the cause, but if it was the company itself, I can see that as a potential domino effect on businesses if the public reaction is good. However the fact of the matter is, if you want/have to pay for less than $10 for a meal, that is prepared in mere minutes, because of any number of possible variables, this cannot happen and be healthy at the same time. Subway does an okay job at this, atleast better than other fast food shops, but all their meat is still processed. People want/need quick, almost ready-to-go food, and the only way to do that, while costing the costumer very little, is to precook and then use preservatives. You also get trans fats and low grade meat and such from the process of simply making this food cheap and fast. It's more of an issue that has such deep footing because of the pace of modern society, think about it, everything is instant now, phones, food, credit and debit cards, etc, rather than an issue on the industry. People get the food because it's so much faster than other options, not because they really can't wait to eat 1,500 calories in a "kiddie meal"