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

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Summary: You won't eat fast food again...
Review: I bought this book and a few months later was told I had to read it for a college course. This book is amazing and really just makes you think about what you are eating and who you are supporting when you order fast food. I took my time reading the book because I know as soon as I was through with it there would be no way I could validate eating fast food ever again (I really did like those egg mc-muffins)... Now I realize that everything tastes better home-made and at least I know what's in my food.

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Summary: What are you eating
Review: I was worried that this book was going to be a bit of a one sided affair but boy was I wrong. Interestingly I read this book alongside reading E-myth revisited and whereas one book glorified the systems process oriented concept of franchised businesses, this showed the dark side of such businesses.

Unless there is nothing else available I totally resent fast food places for my kids to eat. However such a book really makes you think of the efforts that some companies will go to, to get your childrens attention and thus your money as an adult/parent.

Highly recommended book. Well balanced.

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Summary: great stuffs
Review: this book was great, i loved the way he described the way that they process our food. Although it was really gross to know the way they make our meat it was good to know because now one will be more carefull on what they eat

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Summary: should be a mandatory read for all high schools!!!
Review: While it is a bit factual, and there is no story line (nor was I expecting one!!!), the author manages an overview of the FastFood world that includes production lines, myths, and social costs.

Once we realize that not only it is unhealthy - yes it is!, but that Fast Food in general is the fruit of a manipulation of public taste in order to give us the cheapest possible food, with the lowest quality standards, factory engineered taste, that the social costs on workers is enormous, that many food companies appear to place themselves on the margin of legality thanks to political protection, we should be once and for ever cured.

Will we be? I am. And after reading snippets to my 9 yrs old, she also is agreable to eat elsewhere that at the Golden Arches - no matter what the toy in the kidmeal is.