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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I resisted reading this book for about a year until it was assigned to me in class. I took so long to pick it up because honestly, there are certain things that I don't want to know. I was a wuss. This book is not only great as an exposure of the cattle, agrigulture, fast food, and meat packing industry but an interesting and -- strangly fun read about American Culture. It also explains the whole male breast thing.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: I resisted reading this book for about a year until it was assigned to me in class because honestly there are certain things that I don't want to know. I was a wuss.
This book is not only great as an exposure of the cattle, agrigulture, fast food, and meat packing industry but an interesting and -- strangly fun read about American Culture.
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Summary: Great for a book club
Review: I had read this a while back, and knew most of the reasons why fast food is unhealthy, but never thought as much about the other issues involved with restaurant chains. Our book club had an interesting discussion covering the issues of labor unions, political and economic philosophy, dietary habits, among many other things. The story of old fashioned rancher Dale Lasater towards the end was surprising, as I have bought steaks/ground beef from the Lasater ranch through their website. Hopefully this will renew interest in getting food from farmers and ranchers such as Lasater who work in cooperation with the land to produce a healthy product.
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Summary: There is a reason a lot of people buy this book, it is good.
Review: Three words could sum this up, "Buy this Book".
It is worth the money.
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Summary: There really is [feces] in your burger
Review: Despite the plethora of books published every year, few are more exhaustively researched and better at educating the masses. Who knew that excessive fast food consumption was creating an ever increasing illegal immigrant population living at sub-standard levels in America's heartland? Or that the Happy Meal being eagerly consumed by little Johnny was made from cows eating other cows[..and pigs, chickens, etc]. Or that juicy chicken sandwich was once a chick being fed it's own ancestors! In our increasingly materialistic and impatient society, we have cultivated corporations based on greed and maximizing shareholder profits at all costs--even the health of our children. This book does an excellent job of exposing the horrendous process that occurs in providing Americans with a steady diet of fast, cheap, good tasting cannabilized food products.
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Summary: Good read
Review: Great book, very informative, easy read. I must say I enjoy the reviews here by the Dittoheads and Freepers, who lash out at the "vegans" spewing their "rhetoric." You guys crack me up.
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Summary: The wrong narrator for this material
Review: The subject matter is absolutely fascinating, but the audiobook version is almost laughably bad. That's because it's narrated by a guy who sounds like he should be doing motivational tapes. Just the wrong voice, the wrong inflective approach, for this material. Read the book--skip the audio version.
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Summary: A well written, well researched expose on American culture
Review: This book goes well beyond the superficial complaints and jokes about fast food and the fast food industry and explores with rich detail, on-the-site observations and a compelling narritive the rise of fast food in the last 30 years and its impact on America and our culture. Our country has been transformed by this industry, the book thoroughly explains, and we look behind the counter as to what all of this means. it is a book about our culture and politics in as much as the nutrition of what we eat.
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Summary: Well written, easy to read
Review: Schlosser's book is well put together, broad without reaching too far and backed up with plenty of facts that you can check for yourself (excellent references). Highly recommended. Can't wait for him to write another one.
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Summary: you are what you eat...
Review: Most everyone will find something to hate in Eric Schlosser's book, and perhaps a fair number will find a lot to hate about the author himself (he is very left wing, and he is long at pointing fingers and short on providing viable alternatives). 'Fast Food Nation' was a bit of a surprise. I expected a lot McDonalds bashing, plus depressing reading on how unhealthy junk food really is. And yes, Eric Schlosser does deliver these messages very clearly. But fortunately he has a lot more to say. 'Fast Food Nation' is a seemingly endless hate-a-rama by Eric Schlosser. Fortunately, what he hates is really bad stuff: abused animals, abused meatpackers, abused employees of money hungry corportate giants, abused consumers, etc. Some of his observations, seemingly well-researched, are most shocking and horrific. He doesn't blast so much the fast food companies as much as he blasts the terrible social costs incurred by them. And he is mercilous to the (seemingly all Republican) politicians who collude with these companies (and their suppliers). The best I can say about 'Fast Food Nation' is that I learned a lot. Yes, probably much of it is biased and unfair journalism. But sadly most of it is undoubtedly true. Bottom line: mandatory and uncomfortable reading.
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