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Summary: The Truth about Fast Food nations
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone who eats at any fast food chains. It gives you so much information on how the customer really doesn't know what they are really given to eat. I've learned a couple of things about how the fast food nation works.It might be boring at the beginnig but you slowly get into the book because their are so many things that the fast food nations make you believe. I really enjoyed the book and so will you.
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Summary: a good read plus educational information
Review: I started to read Fast food nation for my economics class..i thought that i wouldn't like it that much, but it completely changed my views about eating at fast food restaurants, and i ended up loving it! Before reading this book, i thought that going to a fast food restaurant was simple, and just a place to grab a meal, after reading fast food nation, i realized the background information on fast food joints, and the minipulation that goes along with selling/buying a cheeseburger. Reading this book will make you think before you go and purchase a small bag of french fries.
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Summary: fast food nation
Review: i've read that most Americans go to a fast food place because it is cheap therefore they dont know what they are exactly eating. i disagree because they lack any knowledge about what is used on those burgers and fries because if they know what is in those burgers of fries; they wouldnt eat.
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Summary: i never knew
Review: Fast Food Nation is a very interesting book, opening my eyes to the very unsanitary and unsafe conditions our fast food industry runs by. Although at some points it was slightly dragging, over all it was a very good book.
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Summary: For Economy (2nd Period)
Review: I found Fast Food Nation very educational. Eric Schlosser is a fantastic writer who writes with passion and wit behind his words. Schlosser goes in depth to examine the makings of the "Fast Food Nation" as an industry, lifestyle, and only means of a "living" wage. Fast Food Nation must be read by you!!!
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Summary: Spend the Time
Review: In a time where students are just regurgitating the same information that has been around for years. Fast Food Nation deals with today's culture not that of the pre-television era. While it discusses some of the same issues as Sinclair's The Jungle, it gives it a fresh outlook. Schlosser writes about everything from the beginnings of the industry, to the people who work it, to the product itself.
I admit at first I was bored, and found much of the information to numbers oriented to make sense of it. As time passed though, I came to enjoy the book. The first-hand accounts that are in it make you realize it is not just a story, but our lives.
The book is not a particularly fast read, but well worth the time. The book can appeal to a variety of people. It is for those who are interested in learning more about the society we live in, to those who live and eat the world that is the fast food industry.
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Summary: I'll never eat an undercooked burger again.
Review: Fast Food Nation describes all the horrors of the fast food industry, from the conditions in the slaughterhouses to the high quantities of bacteria in the meat. Schlosser's analysis is both sound and riddled with detail that would perhaps be best not to know. Nevertheless, it has opened the eyes of countless readers and convinced them to never eat in a fast food "restaurant" again.
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Summary: Fast Food Nation
Review: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is a disturbing yet amazingly informative book about how the fast food industry has taken over the American culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone who wants to learn more about how fast food is taking over our lives!
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Summary: title misleading
Review: I bought his book expecting more stories on how the restaurants are actually run. What I got is more of an expose on how the meat industry is run.I read the excerpts of the book and they do not tell the whole story.
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Summary: Ignoring the cow (and pig and chicken) in the kitchen
Review: This book documents how the American dream has turned into a planetary nightmare. It talks about the damage to slaughterhouse workers, the health damage to people who eat the stuff regularly (or even irregularly), the low pay of fast food workers, the great harm to the environment and the economy and cultural diversity, and the fact that fast food corporations are in bed with factory farming interests. But he fails to mention, except in passing, the damage to the genetically engineered animal slaves who have made it all possible. He even visits a slaughterhouse, watches cows being killed, wades around in their blood and feces, and doesn't seem to get it (or care about it). It's a serious omission in an otherwise thorough book. In his last chapter Schlosser presents solutions to the multiple problems caused by fast food. Quite bizarrely, he doesn't even mention the no-brainer solution: vegetarianism (and skip the fries). Lobbying fast food corporations to serve more vegetarian food, and boycotting them if they don't, is another way the consumer can change what they serve. BK now has a veggie burger, and McDonald's is experimenting with them in California. Instead Schlosser suggests that consumers support "organic" meat farmers, not for the possible lesser cruelty involved (if cruelty can ever be lesser), but rather to avoid the chemicals, antibiotics, and bacteria that are rampant in factory-farmed animals and possibly help the environment. Here's one factoid among many favoring vegetarianism: If everyone on the planet ate a meat-centered diet, the world's known oil reserves would last 13 years. If everyone ate veggie, they would last 260 years. Ingrid Newkirk famously stated, "When it comes to pain, hunger and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." Just because animals can't tell us, "Stop! You're hurting me!" doesn't mean they don't suffer. But humans are sentimental, almost religious, about what they eat, and conveniently ignore the agony that goes into each burger. What it will take to change the fast food industry is less emotional attachment to burgers and fries and fried chicken, and more courageous, clear-eyed realism about the incalculable harm this diet has done to the world and ALL its creatures.
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