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Fast Food Nation (2002) (edit title/settings)

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser (Author) (edit contributors)

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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry... read more

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Fast food nation offers an insight view of the food laying in the kitchens of the fast food resturants. It explains the history of how fast food began, from the creation of burgers to the effects on children and humans alike. It includes the use of profanities, for that it was mainly read by... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Fast food nation offers an insight view of the food laying in the kitchens of the fast food resturants. It explains the history of how fast food began, from the creation of burgers to the effects on children and humans alike. It includes the use of profanities, for that it was mainly read by college students and adults. Chapters of the book focuses on the agricultural problems of the fast food industry, and how it harms one's health, and life. The book explains that there is an obesity epidemic, as well as a diabetes epidemic happening in the United States, and Schlosser views how this epidemic began to escalate around the same time, that the fast food industry began raising in power and size. The book refers to some works of authors, but it views mostly on a specific author in the book. That author was Upton Sinclair, who wrote the book, The Jungle, which describes the enivornment of the Chicago slaughterhouses. The potential injuries, or injuries that may or did occur in the slaughterhouses. It describes the torture of the cattle, chickens, and animals alike that are consumed by the people who buy them. It give an inside look at the new bacteria that was in a way created by the efficieny of the slaughterhouse, E: coli 0157:H7. How a few microbes of this bacteria may kill you, and a child with it. It desribes the biggest meat recall that happened in the United States. At nearly the end, it describes a short summary of the Mclibel trial of Morris and Steel V.S McDonald's of how a gardener and a post man beat McDonald's. One topic it focuses on is the global effect of fast food on people of different cultures.

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  • “"This is no fairy story or joke."”
    Upton Sinclair
  • “The chain was "experimenting," according to a congressional investigation, using government-backed loans to open restaurants in marginal locations. Burger King did not lose money when these restaurants closed. American taxpayers had covered the franchise fess, paid for the buildings, real estate, equipment, and supplies.”
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  • In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.
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  • Chicken McNuggets, which became wildly popular among young children, still derive much of their flavor from beef additives—and contain twice as much fat per ounce as a hamburger.
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  • Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating a hamburger can now make you seriously ill: There is shit in the meat.
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  • A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants—mainly at fast food restaurants.
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  • The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
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  • The typical American now consumes approximately three hamburgers and four orders of french fries every week.
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  • Americans already drink soda at an annual rate of about fifty-six gallons per person—that's nearly six hundred twelve-ounce cans of soda per person.
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  • Customers are drawn to familiar brands by an instinct to avoid the unknown.
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  • What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the previous forty thousand. Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast food conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade. Much of the taste and aroma of American fast food, for example, is now manufactured at a series of large chemical plants off the New Jersey Turnpike.
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  • About one-quarter of American children between the ages of two and five have a TV in their room.
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Carl N. Karcher is one of the fast food industry's pioneers.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Introduction

I. The American Way
1. The Founding Fathers
2. Your Trusted Friends
3. Behind the Counter
4. Success

II. Meat and Potatoes
5. Why the Fries Taste Good
6. On the Range
7. Cogs in the Great Machine
8. The Most Dangerous Job
9. What's in the Meat
10. Global Realization

Epilogue: Have It Your Way
Afterword: The Meaning of Mad Cow
Photo Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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This book is in TIME Magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books. (authoritative list)

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  1. Eric Schlosser (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 8, 2002
ISBN: 9780060938451
Page Count: 383

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  • Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

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  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
  • Rick Trembles' Motion Picture Purgatory, Vol. 2

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