Fast Food Nation
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- ISBN13: 9780060838584
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Quick food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the gap 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 cunning mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.
Schlosser’s myth-shattering survey stretches from California’s subdivisions, where the business was born, to the manufacturing corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of quick food’s flavors are fictitious. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths — from the unholy alliance between quick food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, well loved culture, and even real estate.
Amazon.com Review
On any agreed day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a quick-food restaurant, lacking giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Quick food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry’s drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America’s diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, regularly in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, but, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why persons French fries taste so excellent (with a visit to the world’s largest flavor company) and “what really lurks between persons sesame-seed buns.” Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is–factually–feces in your meat.
Schlosser’s investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the nearly perfect lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare effective conditions, union busting, and contaminated practices that introduce E. coli and additional pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Nearly as disturbing is his description of how the industry “both feeds and feeds off the young,” insinuating itself into all aspects of children’s lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. “Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior,” he writes. Where to start? Question yourself, is the right cost of having it “your way” really worth it? –Lesley Reed
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Well, this is an appealing book. But I must say…
God Bless the Quick Food Industry! It represents all that is fantastic with this country. If you don’t like quick food maybe you should place America or are a Communist. Even EUROPEANS like our American quick food, fancy French restaurants are going out of business because the French know a excellent thing when they see it and can’t get enough Huge Macs. Books like this are just incorrect they say quick food is unhealthy and evil my brother eats nothing but quick food he’s 39 and healthy as a horse. I reflect Schlosser must be jealous of quick food success and that’s why he wrote this book. How sad.
You can go yet to be and click “Not Helpful” but by doing so you’re admitting that I’m right and it scares you so much that you feel the need to censure me in some way. Go yet to be, I am used to attacks by liberal nancy-boys.
Final ratings – 1 out of 5 stars.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
did anyone else notice that Arby’s is not mentioned at all in this book? Does anyone find that suspicious? It’s not even in the pointer…
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
because this book is too sickeningly long and dull for anyone to end.
I did not reflect an avalanche of facts and observations could be terrible until I read this pathetic excuse for a New York Times Bestseller.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I usually never eat the quick food, especially MacDonalds because it taste no excellent. This book expalins not only the process of the production but behind the quick food business scene, which makes this book appealing. Schlosser did lots of reserch to make the quick food business, which made MacDonalds the king of the quick food chain. And for example he clarifies the secrets of his success such as why the French fris tastes so excellent, etc.
But he states only the bright side, and not the dark side. For me it is a small sharrow. I wish he had gone deeper.
But after all this book does not convince me to eat at MacDonalds.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
If you’re expecting to read anti-capitalist diatribes commonly establish from the political left, you won’t be disappointed.
For example, the leader quotes a sociologist (no doubt yet another of the leftists that infests our nation’s universities) as adage “… the quick food industry [celebrates] a narrow measure of efficiency over every additional human value.”
The leader himself decries the allegedly “low pay” of the industry. Reflect about the valuable work experience gained the mostly young workforce gains. I wasn’t underpaid building less than $4 an hour as restaurant worker when I was 17 years ancient — if I had been, I could have easily establish employment elsewhere for more money. Also, nobody forced me to work in a restaurant — it was the best option available to me, and I took it. Best of all, I used the experience there as a foundation to attain larger and better jobs.
I could go on, but astute readers will get my point. Freedom, capitalism, and individual rights are the American way. You don’t like that? Take this book with you to Cuba or North Korea and delight in yourself in persons anti-capitalist utopias… and tell Pal Schlosser hello when you arrive.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5