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Summary: Just Another Reason to be a Vegan
Review: It all started with Carl Karcher and his first hot dog cart. Now Carl's Jr. is one of the top selling fast food businesses in North America. Who would have ever thought that companies like McDonalds, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Subway would actually advertise and sell their food in schools across America. Schools that have been losing money and cannot afford to buy new textbooks and supplies now turn to these fast food giants for help. There are actually quotas that schools have to meet in terms of product sales or these companies will pull out. So much for fast food in moderation. These kids are being targeted by these companies from the time they wake up until they go to bed. It's no wonder that obesity is such a huge problem.
I find it strange, yet believable, that more that 70% of fast food visits are impulsive. *On old McDonald's job application forms, it said that employees who wouldn't submit to a lie detector test could face dismissal. *In 1997 a group of teenager workers at a McDonalds in Quebec applied to the Teamsters Union. McDonalds hired 15 lawyers and eventually shut the store down, claiming it wasn't making money even though it had been there for over 17 years. (The odds of a McDonalds going out of business is about 300 to 1) *Chicken McNuggets we introduced nationwide in 1983. Today, chicken McNuggets contain twice as much fat per ounce as a hamburger. *IBP, one of North America's largest slaughterhouses the majority of workers are illegal immigrants who speak no english, receive no benefits or vacation time and even after a severe injury, they are expected to return to work the next day. Some workers are literally "ground up and reduced to nothing." At another slaughterhouse, "cattle infected with measles, tapeworm and covered with abscesses were being slaughtered. Inspectors even allowed beef contaminated with fecal matter, hair, insects, urine and vomit." *In 1993 more than 700 people were sickened by Jack In The Box burgers; four died because of E. coli 0157:H7 *As horrifying as it sounds, because grain is too expensive to feed to cows, instead 75 percent are fed livestock wastes - rendered remains of sheep,cattle.. even dogs and cats purchased from animal shelters.
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Summary: Good book that should have been great
Review: I bought this book hoping, successfully so, that it would minimize my family's fast food spending. But his extreme political one-sided-ness would make most people at least somewhat skeptical of his ability to be fair and balanced.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: Americans eat an outrageous amount of fast food. I used to be one of them until I read this book. Reading this book just might turn you off of fast food forever, as well. Eric Schlosser did an uncanny amount of research before writing this book it's amazing, and it is shown in the incredible detail he goes into on every aspect of the fast food industry. This book truly reveals everything about the fast food industry that they are too afraid to tell you. The making of the food, hiring of the employees and starting of the businesses are all covered, among other things, in this book. If you eat a lot of fast food (and you probably do) or if you don't and you want to have some facts to back you up when you denounce your friends who do, this is a good book to check out.
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Summary: A Solid Piece of Writing
Review: This is a solid piece of popular journalism. Its most troubling contentions are not those related to the ingredients or nutritional value of most fast foods. Schlosser doesn't sensationalize here; yes, the production process is not "natural" and too many cheeseburgers have nutritional consequences, but I would hope we were all aware of that to start with. His contentions regarding the increased potential for the spread of disease via contaminated meat, a potential that is inherent in the processing system, is more serious and deserves to be taken quite seriously. However, I find myself most concerned with how our "fast food nation" fits in with a general decline in the quality of life. While I believe fast food is more symptom than cause of the accelerating - treadmill - to - nowhere quality of contemporary American life, I will note that the employment and production practices described by Schlosser seem clear examples of the "progress" we have made down the road to hell. Workers, farmers, and consumers alike suffer the consequences of a system that seems to reward the most efficient possible production of the least substantive possible product. That, I suggest, is the tragedy of living in "fast food nation."
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Summary: I still will not eat the fast food.
Review: I usually never eat the fast food, especially MacDonalds because it taste no good. This book expalins not only the process of the production but behind the fast food business scene, which makes this book interesting. Schlosser did lots of reserch to create the fast food business, which made MacDonalds the king of the fast food chain. And for example he explains the secrets of his success such as why the French fris tastes so good, etc.
However he states only the bright side, and not the dark side. For me it is a little sharrow. I wish he had gone deeper.
But after all this book does not convince me to eat at MacDonalds.
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Summary: A very usefull book!
Review: Mr Schlosser's book is really great because it reflects a lot of people's opinions and fears. All the information given in this book could be very helpfull for all those who want to denounce the "fast food's way of life". Everyone should think about the consequences of their acts and not only the personal ones like health implications but also how many people are affected by what we buy. What I especially liked in this book is the depth of the analysis and the wide range of territorries covered (implications on health, workforces, farmers, uniformaty in the way of eating ... and thinking...).
However, I would liked to have seen an accent about the ecological consequences of meat production and especially on deforestations. This is not a secondary problem.
Moreover It would have been also interesting to have a comparision with other countries in that field.
Anyway, this book was very usefull and I'm convinced that we all need to broader our minds and have an autocritic of our actions as consumers.
So thank you Mr Schlosser for having this very usefull job for us.
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Summary: Read it, it is for the good of the world
Review: Without a doubt, I think that this book might interest everyone. It is a great documentary on the reality of the fast food industry in America. For example, you can learn how does the marketing for such companies work including the strategy to attract the children and the whole family to eat fast food.What is really apreciable is that this is a reliable detailed and scientific analyse of many aspects of this huge industry. Mr Schlosser has a good sense of critic and doesn't hesitate to destroy the myth of the easy, tasty and cheap food. He goes behind the scenes to show the reality of the process to make the huge quantity of food, what are the concenquences on the society, the people and the economy. Nevertheless, I am convinced that there are some points Mr Schlosser forgot to mention. What about the effect on the environment? He missed to talk about the effect on the other countries too and how the fast food industry developp itself in the world. This book is destinated to everyone who would like to know what is exactly hidden behind the clean facade of fast food restaurants.
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Summary: Large fastfoods, big money and poor unskilled workers!
Review: What made me react in this book was not the way fastfoods have been growing about the last decades, after all it is the normal way of the progress, but it was the conditions of the employees. In this,I have learnt something. In our high-capitalized world it is shameful to see how humans being is the last thing to be taken in consideration; as a matter of fact, a large amount of money is used for commercials and marketing. I have seen immigrants working under terrible strain, this leading often to fights. Of course workers get injured by working so many hours without a chance to be helped as more ofthen than not their accident are unrecorded. How come that the population is not reacting ? This book was really interesting as it reveals the other problems surrounding the way of how a fastfood is managed.
However the writer might have propose some solutions : for example the creation of a union. On the other hand the articles should have been less catastrophic ! For example the subject of the cities looking like replicating codes: it is a normal phenomenon caused not only by modern life, but mainly by an increase in the population.
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Summary: Fast food contreversy
Review: I have been very interested on reading this book about fast food.The author give us many pertinent explanations about this society phenomenom . How that happened from the very beginning to nowaday .
I have understood better the economical problems which allowed to fast food to spread at every corners of the US .
However since this phenomenom does't affect only the US but also the all world , I would have like to have seen more accurate society and economical explanations on the facts that fast food have spread everywhere .What the reasons were ? Are we so dependant of the American model ?
Still I understand the similarities between US and European countries , maybe some same economical reasons and society development but what's about country like Nepal for exemple that is so far from the model brought by the occidental countries?
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Summary: FAST FOOD RESPONSES
Review: This was a great book, especially liked the deep to help understand the process, the full of details about all aspects of the fastfood. However Mr schlasser just have spent more time to speak about the specifically ecologicals problems, and not only about the USA but in on mondial echelle. Finally, he seems a little too much pessimistic.
We doesn't forget that the majority of people used the fastfood occasionally; so it's not so bad and very practical. In the life, all things is an question of equilibre : not to much but not never, especially when you leave in a city and when you have children.You have to feel yourself the limits and your possibility to respect those, in spite of the pressure of the systeme, the lying publicity.
The idealistic solution should be more to come back at a "slowly life", take the time to cook and speak, and, at first, to be happy with less superficial things.
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