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

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Summary: I will never eat fast food again and I mean it
Review: I am always very happy to see, and especially read, a book like Fast Food Nation. While hearing about the way the meat is prepared, the practices of the big businesses in charge, and the treatment of the workers is discomforting at best, to know that someone is out there making the public aware of it is somehow comforting. Like practically everyone else out there who read it, I am totally turned off to fast food. Not that I was much into it before, but I even stopped eating all ground meat PERIOD after reading this. Of course, the worst information this book reveals is that the system doesn't really work. The FDA is being bribed and pressured into giving out unsound advice, workers' unions are a fantasy, and, surprise surprise, campaign contributors are ending up in all sorts of places that they don't belong. All in all, I found Fast Food Nation to informative and very eye opening. Schlosser did a fine job of hitting his reader with the facts and making the book, though dense with description and statistics, an easy read.

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Summary: The compelling reality
Review: This book reveals far more fact than I expected. Not only about the fast fod itself but also about the compelling truth of a business. Before I read about this book, all I know about fast food is that it's unhealthy and containing high calories. Now every hamburger that appears in front of my eyes makes me think of those chemical-based flavor factory, injured workers in the slaughterhouse, and pathogens. It's hard to ignore them once you've read this book which is composed of amazing facts and some sentimental touches. As fast food restaurants taking over the American stle of eating, people should raise a more serious concern about the impact of such business-like industry chain. This book provides a wholesome view of the impact of the fast food industry, and points out the dark side of the American meal. There are these facts that definitely relevant to our lives that we must acknowledge of: such as food containing the deadly E. coli 0157:H7, and the working conditions in the slaughterhouse, should be further investigated by the public.

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Summary: It is a wonderful book
Review: Fast food Nation is an interesting book to read. At times my mind would wonder off, but overall, I feel that it is a book worth picking up. It discusses the secrets behind the counter in a fast food restaurant. Why the french fries tate so good, and what's in the meat. For those who do not know these things, it's a book worth reading.

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Summary: Fast Food
Review: Fast Food Nation gives the reader an idea of how the fast food chain works. It gives life experiences of people that work in the fast food industry and how they were treated. It also gives facts of what's in the meat that we eat in restaurants. But overall it's an okay book.

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Summary: Fast food Fad
Review: Fast food nation is a wonderful book about americas favorite past time...eating. It truely exposes the truth behind the counter. The conditions in which they keep the meat is unbelievable, and so is what they do to the animals. I strongly recommend that everyone read this book. It is THE JUNGLE of today. It will open your eyes.
alie

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Summary: gross fast food
Review: Fast Food Nation definitely gets its point across to readers. It seems almost impossible that a person who eats fast food or most meat in general could read this book and then not at least think twice before ordering the next time. However, I did think that the majority of the book fit into one of two categories. Either the information seemed off topic or it was full of repulsive, bloody details.

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Summary: Jackie's take on Fast Food Nation
Review: The book was long, but direct and unnaturally convincing. It caused me to see fast food as another way of taking advantage of people and their ignorance. It has taught me that most companies do illegal and unethical things in order to benefit themselves. The book was filled with vivid detail and strongly written. I would recommend this book because it not only relates to the economy, but other areas in life as well.

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Summary: THE TRUTH IN ONE BOOK
Review: THIS BOOK TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT FAST FOODS RESTAURANTS. THIS BOOK IS ALSO GOOD BECAUSE IT GIVES BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON HOW THE IMPORTANTS RETAURANTS LIKE MACDONALDS STARTED. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS BOOK BECAUSE I WORKED FOR MACDONALDS A FEW MONTHS AGO AND THE OIL THAT THEY USED FOR THE FRIES THEY KEEP IT FOR ALMOST A MONTH . AND THAT OIL CAUSES ALOT OF HEALTH PROBLEMS. I REALLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK

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Summary: Read this!
Review: Short and sweet:
Read this if: 1) you want to understand how the fast food industry shapes not just what McDonald's serves, but how food arrives in our homes every day; 2) for an overview of the ways in which corporations invisibly shape so many aspects of our lives. Don't read this if 1) you want to be able to go on eating as you do without having to rethink your life; 2) your only concern about food is fat grams and cholesterol rather than the social practices that underpin our lives. Horrifying, but excellent!

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Summary: Economics Period 2 Book Review
Review: This book does an excellent job in depicting the horrors and the disgust that goes on the fast food chains. Every page describes in detail the nastiness of the food processing.
After reading this, I probably will never got to another fast food chain to eat again. Now that I now what goes on in those chains, there is no way.
The journalistic style of this book is also some what entertaining. This book is not like any other boring news report. This book is very catchy.
This book also does an excellent job in exposing the lies that each and evry fast food chain has said or promised. Now I know that the food they offer is not real food but genetically engineered and is hardly good for you.