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Shelves: medical , non-fiction , food-n-book , should-buy. Please read this book. Then the phone rang. The cordon bleu meal in front of them turns out to be a ghastly pile of chemical slop. A tale full of sound, fury, and popping grease. In and Out Burger purchases meat from local farmers. I did not read this book for fun. Next, Schlosser visits Colorado Springs, CO and investigates the life and working conditions of the typical fast- food industry employee, learning how fast-food restaurants pay minimum wage to a higher proportion of their employees than any other American industry. But he goes on to argue that the marketing tactics employed, though necessary, are unethical. Rob Walker, writing for The New York Times , remarks that "Schlosser is a serious and diligent reporter"" and that " Fast Food Nation isn't an airy deconstruction but an avalanche of facts and observations as he examines the fast-food process from meat to marketing. Because, really: what's the fucking point? Eat nothing but fast food for a month and you're going to get sick? He's ended up in this future utopia, but there are some puzzling details that don't quite fit. November 17, That was almost ten years ago; I've modified my eating habits. His eye is sharp, his profiles perceptive, his prose thoughtful but spare; this is John McPhee behind the counter Want to Read saving…. And I've experienced first hand the affects of fast food - how it makes you gain weight, become lethargic, etc. Epilogue 1: Different ways of raising beef; Conway's Red Top closed in and In-N-Out still going strong ; what good influence can come from McDonald's power; what even the ordinary consumer can do. Children being vulnerable also through school food which gets cheap meats. How do people sleep at night knowing their wealth is built upon such textbook examples of man's inhumanity to man, let alone his inhumanity or inbovinity to cow? They also pay their employees better than the popular burger joint. I taught a research and writing class with this book, and most of my students were at first appalled by Schlosser's finding. During a relatively brief period of time, the fast food industry has helped to transform not only the American diet, but also our landscape, economy, workforce, and popular culture. Epilogue 2 added after first prints : on Mad Cow: from feeding other animals to cows same sort of feeding happens in other places - poultry, hogs, pets, zoo animals. I literally couldn't put the book down since I picked it up from my sister's bookshelf. I'd heard about it and expected a start-to-finish diatribe against the fast food nation industry from top to bottom, but that wasn't the case. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Revised) Writer

Pew Research Center. And that's pretty much the entire point of bringing up this base in intricate detail. If there was any weakness in the book, it would be the challenge in bridging the stories from the individual to the larger philosophical and systemic issue. I mean he was brain damaged by the second day! November 17, But I'm glad I read it. During that period, women entered the workforce in record numbers, often motivated less by a feminist perspective than by a need to pay the bills. Just like Sinclair's novel, this book has also failed to spark even the tiniest bit of rebellion against the inherent injustice of industrial capitalism. Not training the employees enough to do the job well. Sep 08, Danine rated it it was amazing. Coming Soon. I also learned about In and Out burger joint. In the final chapter, Schlosser considers how fast food has matured as an American cultural expor