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Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: surprised me
Review: This book shocked me about the way the fast food stores do their work, and cover stuff up, a bit leaning to the left

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is very good, i like it much.
Review: Ask most people who protest eating at McDonalds why and they will probably give you an answer like because they kill lots of cows. Finally some one has written a book that can give a full answer to that question.
This book is spectacular.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad data and a lack of logic *
Review: Typical socialist drivel.
what The Wall Street Journal called "cavalier manipulation of data." *
consumerfreedom has a good review on their web site.

*consumerfreedom

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Eye opening, cutting edge journalism that educates you!
Review: This is an incredible book about not only the fast food business and its effects on all aspects on the economy and society but a look at the hidden costs that we all pay as a society thru this cultural movement of eating and living on fast food. This book shocks a person when you read about the innocent people who are injured or have their lives destroyed by working at slaugherhouses with dangerous conditions. However, the book also tells the amazing stories of how ordinary men launched fast food empires with American ingenuity and persistance and hard work.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Unreal
Review: This book should be required reading for every high schooler in this country. It's about so much more than the fast food industry, specifically man's inhumanity to man on a staggering number of levels. A great read crammed with facts and research.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: McPolemic
Review: Eric Schlosser writes the most riveting, frightening book I have read since Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and this book is all fact. Brilliant research, cross-referencing, and analysis combined with poignant stories of people virtually destroyed by "McCulture." It is one of the few books that has radically, both while reading and after reflecting on it, that has radically shifted my paradigms concerning fast food, the meat industry, and corporate America. An added bonus: it is the best book for those who want to diet...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: But I still love hamburgers
Review: An amazing tale of food, greed, and the treachery of modern corporate food retailers. The story of the slaughterhouse worker is terrifying, and the french fry story is fascinating (McDonald's fries still gets my vote, regardless of the huge markup).

If you want to know how you are being manipulated into craving fatty, low quality food, this is your book. It's like the X Files of food, except this one has sources to back up the claims.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Investigative, Disturbing
Review: I'm a junk food fan. Taco Bell, Mickey D's, etc. Good stuff. Or so I thought. In "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser rips apart every aspect of the fast food industry.

Nothing is sacred, and though my one of my first jobs was at a famous burger chain, I'm wondering now if I'll allow my kids to work at one, or their competition.

At first, I thought the book was going to be another "too much salt, too much fat" kind of slam against the dietary weakness of fast food. Far from it. Instead, Schlosser looks poisons, advertising, corporate farms, even how French fries are cut.

Schlosser is thorough, with an index bigger than you'd expect. He's organized, yet writes in an engaging style, not letting the subject stifle readability.

I fully recommend "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser.

Anthony Trendl

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: How fast food has changes nations - for the worse
Review: BR>Schlosser did a fantastic job in this book showing how freeways opened up America and with that came mobile food, fast food.
Then he shows how the growth of fast food changed our eating habits, body fat ratio, advertising, the meat industry, potato farming, the flavor industry and a million other things you'd never think of- and almost all those changes not for the better.
Truly interesting and a little disturbing. Frankly I'm not sure I'll ever eat any fast food again. At least not until changes are made in the industry (mainly the cleanliness) and Schlosser even provides suggestions how we can make a difference.
My favorite part is his impartial attitude and how frank he is on the subject. He doesn't get too preachy and even admits to eating a lot of this food while writing the book. Ok, finding out the fries at Mc D's are not vegetarian was pretty cool too. Man that steamed my buddies girlfriend, HA!
I've passed this onto my fiancée and a friend as well as recommending it to anyone looking for a good, informative read.
Check it out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You'll Never Eat At McDonalds Burger King again
Review: I Like this book.. It is interesting.. enlightening.. and it tells us what we kind of know already..how we have been over run with fast food chains, and fake food. Eat at "In and Out Burgers" its the only real fast food left out there. And no I dont own stock in In & Out..but I should they cook their food right there on the premises, they dont own a freezer.. This book just tells us how we have been slowly duped, hoodwinked..by the fast food industry. Get this book..it will change your eating habits.


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