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Summary: Knocking Down Walls of The Fast Food INdustry
Review: There has many books that have explained how big businesses can dominate the way a country is ran, but Fast Food Nation discusses exactly how this particular industry can directly influence America. There are various explanations for the repetivenes in giving into the fast food corporation, convienece, little toddlers looking up to the cartoon characters, and repeatedly wanting more and more. The outreach of this industry expands to youth, immigrants, adults and anyone who has ever driven down a street or freeway and exposed to the big signs and advertisements that attack are nation and persuade us into buying something that we know is wrong. Schlosser's work explains all the wrongs and rights in the industry. Everytime I picked the book up, and came across stastics and research findings about what they put into the food, I felt obliged to tell everyone that I knew how clueless the American public really is. Our fasicnation with the industry is both detrimental and postive to our nation. I would recommend this book to anyone open to change. It is very important for the nation of the United States, to realize how we can get onto band wagons(fast food restaurants) without knowing what they are made of.
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Summary: You won't eat fast food
Review: i enjoyed this book very much. It really tells the truth behind fast food. Not only the fod but how the companies work, and how it all started. the book was pretty interesting and kept me reading which is a miracle since I hate to read. However, some parts of the book got a little boring. But as a whole, it was a good book.
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Summary: I can no longer eat Fast Food!!!
Review: I used to love fast food, even though I didn't eat it frequently since I was already told by my parents that this type of food is very fattening and unhealthy. I eat at Jack in the Box every Friday; that is, I used to.
After reading this book in a very short amount of time (since it was so intriguing) I became more and more leary about what I ate, and every bite that I took from my hamburger.
This book changed the way I see fast food restaurants. Not only did it procure a strong message on the content of the food but it also made me think twice about eating another fry or drinking another sip of my milk shake.
The book was so detailed and so convincing that I couldn't bear thinking how I could have even lived like this, knowing that something was going on in my stomach after I would eat any little thing. Schlosser really knew the method for getting my attention as well as enticing me to go on in the reading. As he mentioned that the only reason that food tasted so good was because they were dipped into chemicals and artificials to substitute for the great taste. "Fast Food Nation" make s one really think about how any person can ingest chemicals and animal skin and animal excretion into their bodies. I have goosebumps thinking about it. [Yuck]!!! I am very fastidious about my food, thus, any little comment about where and what my food comes from can stop me from ever eating again.
If the idea of food soaked in chemicals doesn't disgust you than maybe the idea of the visits to the slaughterhouse will. As Schlosser describes the stroll that he has as he sees cows being shot in the head and then carried through the dark slaughterhouse on hooks, where they then get their skin peeled off, their heads shopped, the blood dripping in gallons on the floor where the butchers work. Power saws are utilized to cut them in slices and finally organs are removed. Disgusting!!
The thing that pleased me the most about this book was that so many examples and details about the historical background and the early fast food founders were given, which also kept the reader moving along in the book without having to put it down. This book is truly an eye opener, and I recommend the book to anyone hasn't read it, and especially the ones that oftenly eat at Fast Food restaurants.
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Summary: thise is home work
Review: FastFoodNatiom. It really is a cachy title if you tell me. when you read the cover you would think there going to talk about good food that yo wold only find in surtin places. But nno what they talk is totaly the oppeset of what you think. what the book those is tell you about how the fast food compenies have screwed us over for the last couple of years, why? Well I really don't know why he did it , because now I'm really not upto eating some re-frozen peace of meat. But it's always good to find out what where eating now a days. Aldo in the bigining of the book it seams kind of boring. It tells you some good things that you would rearly know.But I give props to thise book because I was told to.
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Summary: Fast Food Nation Review
Review: Fast Food Nation is a very informative book that reveals the hidden facts behind fast food. Billions of Americans are served fast food daily, not even thinking about the things that the food may contain. This book helps you to find out what you are truly eating. Eric Schlosser does not only write the facts of the fast food industry, but also writes detailed stories to back up the facts or incorporate his points. These stories help to make the book much more 'reader friendly' and a lot more interesting. The history of fast food is discussed extensively; even though the history is intesting, I think that there is a bit too much. Personally, I would like to see less history and more facts obout the current industry. Overall, I think that it is a very good, interesting and informative book and I suggest that you read it in order to be able to make healthier food choices.
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Summary: An Eye Opener Full of Statistics
Review: This book has had such an amazing effect not only on me but on my family as well. Every time I came across something that was worthy of yelling out I did. I have eaten at fast food restaurants across the nation since i was a little toddler. It never came to my attention of the "god-awful" things that these business put into making the food that I love. The biblical quote, "the truth shall set you free" is the exact feeling that came to my as I finished the book. I have never read such a book that delved into so my different background stories. The fact that the author spent so my time alone researching for the book proves that he felt strongly about what he was trying to prove. The most important aspect in this book are the effects that the fast food tycoons have over the nations. And how many of the technology advances and businnes studies have their foundation in the fast food business. I would recommend this book to any one who is willing to change!
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Summary: Not as good as I expected
Review: Hearing a synopsis of the book from my Economics teacher made me really want to read this book. He described it in such a way that it sounded really interesting. I though the whole thing would be all of the nitty-gritty details that fast food places always try to keep a secret from all of their customers. This book did not have a lot of that at all. It took about 130 pages to get to the first "bad" part of the book. The author talked about the amount of chemicals were in a Burger King strawberry milkshake. While there were quite a bit, I was hoping to hear more about rats in burgers, stuff like that; things that would entirly discourage me from ever eating at a fast food place again. Although what I was hoping for is pretty morbid, the bottom line is that it did not meet my expectations. There was some interesting things but for the most part it was monotonous. It seemed like if you read the first hundred pages you read the whole book. Instead of giving a brief summary of factories or potatos, it gave you 40 pages to read on each subject. While the first chapter was very interesting to me, it all got pretty dull from there.
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Summary: Highly recommended, unsettling
Review: I had the misfortune of reading this book, and just finishing the chapter, "What's in the Meat", Schlosser's chapter that starts by stating "everyday in the USA roughly 200,000 people are sickened by a food borne disease, 900 are hospitalized and 14 die"; a chapter that details the pathogens that are in our meats (especially E coli 0157:H7) and what they do to your body. had the misfortune of reading through the book, up to this chapter, the day my girlfriend planned a dinner party. That night, I listened to our guests amenable chatter, while they passed the large platter of meat, each one piling their plate full of meat, red, juicy beef. I said nothing. Yet, throughout the dinner I hearing my inner voice say over and over... 'E coli, E coli, E coli'.This is a disturbing book, especially regarding effects that both the meat industry and fast food industry have on our health. This is a damning book for the under-regulated meat industry and equally damning for the Republican Party, which, according to Schlosser's research, is comfortably in bed with the meat industry and actively blocks efforts to heighten the health standards of the meat industry. Schlosser names prominent Republican Party politicians who have received generous contributions from the meat and fast food industry and thereafter acted to restrain and reduced the effectiveness of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service to detect and remove contaminated meat. Also daunting is the size of both mammoth international corporations that control much of what America eats. Power and greed meet Big Mac's and fries in this engaging and exemplary book. There are many striking chapters in this book. Chapter One: 'Founding Fathers' offers fascinating sketches of the men that shaped the fast food industry. Chapter Four: "Success" tells about the development of the franchise method of business ownership. Chapter Five: "Why the Fries Taste So Good" gives a glimpse into the world of chemically engineered flavorings, both natural and artificial. In reflection; Americans spent 110 billion dollars on fast food in 2000 and fast foods great taste was but one of the many reasons. Though Eric Schlosser lays out the convicting reasons we should change our diet, I am afraid that telling Americans to stop eating fast food, that they are getting obese, and it is bad for their health, will have the same effect as telling Dean Martin to stop drinking, that alcohol was going to kill him. And it did. This is a highly recommended, unsettling socialcultural report that is a required read by anyone who seeks to understand American culture and all that are packing the pounds
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Summary: Fast Food Nation
Review: This book was a real eye-opener into the world of fast food. I've always been one to eat fast food and now I'm not so sure if I'm going to look at a burger and fries the same ever again. But to tell you the truth I'll probably continue to eat fast food. I've learned about other disgusting details about other things and I've continued to eat those products despite these details. In this book Schlosser gives a detailed account of how the fast food industry started with just one hot dog stand to now with major corporations and tons of merchandise. It is now available to us to know what goes on to get our food. The detail of every step in the process to get our food is very enlightening. It really shows America how horrible it can be behind the scenes of such big chains like McDonalds, Burger King, Jack In The Box, etc. Fast food has had such a huge impact on every person's lives and it is amazing that it only started a few decades ago. Schlosser does a great job in showing everyone the dark side of a fast food meal. It's such a culture shock to us because it is like the "American Way" to go down to McDonald's to go get some food. Most of us have no idea that there are people treating animals horribly and that there are not such great conditions in the factories where our food is being processed. Overall this book was great and I am glad that I had the opportunity to read it.
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Summary: Reads like a fast-paced mystery novel
Review: I couldn't put this book down. Mr. Schlosser's style keeps you reading; the facts keep you horrified. I will never eat at a McDonald's again (didn't usually eat there anyway). I highly recommend this book to everyone, but especially to those people who eat fast-food frequently. This book will open your eyes to the kind of "food" you have been ingesting. There are chemicals in that food to make it taste good, but the real problem is bacteria that can make you very sick. Read the end of the paragraph in the middle of page 197 to see what I mean. This should be required reading for every parent, every teenager, every teacher and school administrator, and every Senator and Representative. This is a *very* engaging and enlightening book!
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