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

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Summary: Scholsser: an astute man
Review: There's a good reason why Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation is subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal." Although the book is filled with fascinating history and facts we don't normally think about -- including the best information we're ever likely to get on why french fries taste so good -- it's ongoing in its pursuit of connections. Schlosser won't rest until we're fully informed about how our Big Mac came to lie before us on its plastic tray.

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Summary: a book that every fast food lover should read
Review: Fast Food Nation was an eye opening book about the fast food industry. This book goes into details about things that people wouldn't dear associate with fast food. This book explains the sad truth that American values and taste are all influenced by a very corrupted system. It is a book I deeply feel everyone should read.

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Summary: Fast Food Nation
Review: I found this book very insightful, it really made me reconsider not only fast food resaurants but many factors of our society. It draws attention to how companies are exploiting the general public. Although i did enjoy the final message, while reading it, it did become rather tedious. everything was described in such detail that i felt the urge to skip paragraphs. I understand that all these ancedotes belonged in this book, and they every item mention correlated to message of the book, but it did become boring. I truly recommended that people should read this book but that it is ok to skip lines and ocassionally paragraphs.

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Summary: The Ending Days of Fast Food!!!
Review: In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser gives the reader an eye-opening look at how America was changed into a world of fast food restaurants. He also details the contact that this
combination has had on the country and also how it has affected every aspect of our lives from how our food is grown to how children are exploited for labor. Schlosser spent many many hours researching this book, and he carefully writes down the facts that he describes.
Schlosser also takes a very hard look at the impact that fast food restaurants, in particular,have had on how our food is grown and turned into finished products. He tells the reader
about a very graphic look inside a slaughterhouse, and explores how food often becomes adulterated with deadly bacteria simply because of how the food is handled in the factory.
If you are not already a vegetarian, this book will definitely make you reconsider whether you should become one or not. The descriptions of how the meat is raised, slaughtered, and processed will make your stomach shake.
'Every day in the United States, roughly 200,000 people are sickened by a foodborne disease, 900 are hospitalized, and fourteen die." (Pg. 340)
This is a scary, and all too important book. Schlosser's evidence is well put and the book includes many intriguing facts that capture the eye.
I know, that after devouring the whole book in two days, that I was no longer enticed by the good smell of Jack In The Box on Fridays, where I would usually eat. These days have vanished from my life.
Hopefully, it'll also make everyone leary of the real cost of fast food, and the impact that it had, and will continue to have, on this society, our health, and our economy.

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Summary: Shining Light on the Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Review: Upon reading the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser I learned a lot about the fast food industry, how it operates and how its managed. I strongly recemend this book to anyone interested in learning the truth about how the fast food industry operates. The book is full of facts going back to the life story of practically each fast food restaurant as well as the life story of the founders of the restaurant. Information such as what the founder did before opening the restaunrant, then the managment of the restaurant such as where the food comes from, how to prepare the food, the wages, and the cost margin, as well as hte economics involved in hte process of maintaing a fast food restaurant. I read it and loved it, i neveer knew just how deep the fast food industry goes.

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Summary: think twice before going to McDonald's
Review: Eric schlosser gives graphic details about the fast food indestry. I'll think twice before going to McDonald's and ordering something to eat.It's a really good book, I recommend this book to everyone. I espeacially recommend this book to people who eat fast food on a daily basis so that they think twice about eating there.

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Summary: Fast Food Nation DISHES OUT THE DIRT!
Review: Eric Schlosser really dishes out the dirt with this book describing the not so pleasant side of fast-food. This book was a real eye-opener and will make me think twice the next time I grab a bite to eat.I recommend this book to everyone.

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Summary: Read, if you want to know what is really in your fast food
Review: Fast Food Nation gives great details on what is going behind the counter, in the slaughterhouse, and how fast food became so big. If you are interested and have the stomach to read about what you are eating and what eating it too often can do to you, this is a great. Sometimes he can get a little too detailed on the background information on the current fast food chains and what type of business advances they made in the past. Other than that it's hard too put down and it keeps your attention. Great Read!

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Summary: Worth your money and time.
Review: This is a great piece of journalism/literature. The material presented in the book is readable and goes by fast. Without this book I would not go out and research the subject of fast food on my own. I neither have the time or talent to do so. The history of the fast food industry is truely amazing and its a shame that good old American values can also be an evil thing. Yes, low prices are good but is it worth risking our health, I don't think so.
I learned how the power of the fast food industry influences the meatpacking industry, the "flavorizing" of products, American culture, and abusive practices that are performed from the corporate headquarters to the slaughterhouses. Definitely a must-read.

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Summary: Fast Food Nation
Review: This book tells you everything about fast food. It tells you from how it all got started to all the companies that go along side of it. It tells you about their greediness, how they miss treat their employees, and whats really in the food they serve you. The book is well written and is very informative.