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Summary: Informative in a disturbingly good way
Review: This book has anything and everything you ever wanted to know to ditch your dirty fast food addiction. Read it and you'll come to realize why obesity is growing in America. If that doesn't get you, the E.coli and fecal matter found in your burger's meat will. Read it and join many others in their oath to never consume fast food ever again.
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Summary: Sarve of Santa Monica High School
Review: Fast Food Nation is a great book that uncovers the truths about the corrupt fast food industry. I enjoyed learning about how the fast food chains came along, It was like a history lesson in fast food. Schlosser also makes great analogies between the way our food is created and the assembly lines in car factories. It is sad to finally find out what is really in our meat, but thanks to Schlosser we finally know. All in all this was a great book that enlightened me and expossed a side of the industry that I thought never existed.
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Summary: The "Suburban" Jungle.
Review: I reluctantly decided to pick up this book. I thought it would be an extreme left wing rant about the current state of society. In some respects, I was right. At first, I thought, oh no. The author decided to show a bleak view of society by the amount of fast food restaurants there are. He painted a picture of some ideal restaurants being overtaken by huge fast corporations. Uhm, I lived in a place where many fast food places were pretty much banned, and let me tell you, the food was inconsistent, the service rude, the places unclean, and the menu extremely overpriced. So, I initially thought this book was going to fall apart.Then the author started to shift away from his sociological gripes and starts detailing the history and workings of fast food. Intriguing, and fact filled, this section seemed to make up for the his leftist tint. He chronicled the life of a farmer, a land owner, the major food corporations. He provided an interesting view of the integration and exploitation between their workings and interactions. His countless examples of money influencing the politicians also adds to the book. He then moves onto the working conditions of employees at meat packing facilities. Though relying mostly on just a few examples, he convincingly paints the meat industry as corporate monsters who would sacrifice illegal aliens, towns, and the health of even school children to make an extra buck. Finally, in the afterward, he goes into mad cow disease, with a scary and scathing view of the food industry view on this that will make anyone second guess what they put into there mouth. Unfortunately, he never convinced me that fast food places like McDonalds were bad. In fact, he sort of compliments Jack in the Box when it comes to food safety. However, his picture of where meat come from is eye opening and slightly horrifying, and is the real strength of this book.
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Summary: Everything about FAST FOOD is TRUE!
Review: The author is right on the mark. In my month at a very popular fast food place they did pick up the frozen hamburgers off the floor to put them on the grill. A box of those frozen burgers busted and no thought about cleanliness was taken into consideration. The supervisor calls it waste control. Many times I was told not to wash my hands because it would take away time from the grill. After this I have avoided fast food for the past ten years. I'm not kidding folks ... this is true...
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Summary: Pretty good...but disturbing in the process!
Review: Overall i thought this book was very good. Well researched, and written. This book reminds me of "Nickel and Dimed" which was also a good book by the way. This book showed me a different side to an industry that i buy from everyday! It provided a lot of good information on how the fast food world is really based on profits and how the businesses don't care on how they treat their workers, or how they sell an unhealthy product and many other issues in the fast food industry. But this book shocked me because I buy fast food products nearly at least 3 times a week. But if you want to know how fast food is dumming and contributing to our unhealthy food intakes, read this book. The author bares it all for you.
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Summary: A book for the next generation
Review: I started to read this book knowing that I probably wouldn't want to eat another McDonalds hamburger again...But, I still wanted to learn what was so terrible about the Fast Food companies dominating our streets today. Surprisingly, I was more than persuaded to not eat another McDonalds hamburger. I was shocked to hear the personal accounts of workers,buisness owners, parents and government officials. This interesting twist on the values of America is a good thorough examination of what we stand for as Americans, and what we should stand for as Americans. The more people who read this book, and who become aware of the issues talked about, the better. Eat up!
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Summary: Think Twice About Those Burgers
Review: This was a great read, frightening in a non-alarmist methodical way, educational, and with a plot that calls to mind Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. I hope this book pushes the meat and food industries, and especially the FDA and the government, to radically change the low standards that currently apply to food processing. We are definitely *not* the cleanest nation on earth.
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Summary: Mc Scary
Review: I had been told that after reading this book that I'd never eat fast food again. I didn't beleive it at the time, but having read this fascinating expose, I can't but shudder when I see those big neon signs. This is no anti-globilisation/conspiracy theory/left wing looney book. This is a detailed & well researched insight into how our eating habits are being eroded in favour of the mighty dollar. Apart from the rubbish pumped into our supersize meal deals, the conditions that the industry workers have to suffer are little better than those that the animals endure, which are in any case disgraceful.
If you care about your environment, your animals, your people and your health, read this book.
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Summary: A must read for Humans
Review: Thought you were just eating chicken?
How about chickens that have been fed on dead cats and dogs and cow offal, plate scrapings from your last restaurant meal, not to mention their own grandparents !!
Next time you bite into ANY meat -particularly those delicious hamburgers or even those fantastic new chicken salads at fast food restaurants - just think about what could actually be in your mouth!
Read this book PLEASE and lets help to make the world a better place for Humans and animals
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Summary: Wow! The story of what goes on behind the counter.
Review: I borrowed this book on tape for a trip across Florida. When I returned home I immediately purchased it and shared portions with my sixth and seventh grade students. My copy now looks one hundred years old after having been carried in backpacks for a few months.
Schlosser tells an amazing story that I found both entertaining and disturbing. His liberal bias is evident, but even an ardent conservative will be able to look past his rhetoric to learn how the market has created an efficient but chilling industry that shapes they way almost all Americans live.
This book is both good reading and a good read. It's a page turner that holds its own with a Grisham novel, but it also tells an important story that is overlooked. Schlosser footnoted his statements, so I trucked down to the Palm Beach County library to verify their claims. My unscientific review of has proven to me that the author can back up his statements.
I listened and read Fast Food Nation with a critical mind and I am pleased that this book--while both entertaining and disturbing--presented me with facts that I needed to know. Mike Dowling
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