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Summary: Not bad
Review: I chose this book thinking I was going to know gorry details about the book, but only found about the beginning of these huge corporations who have managed to make millions of dollars from the nation. Of course it talks about the slaughter of beef and poultry, but if you eat meat you already knew that, right?! Its nothing new and no matter what people are not going to stop eating fast food because either way its freaking good!
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Summary: My review
Review: This book gives you an inside look on how the happy fast food industry is really like. I really like the book and I think that everyone should read it. Schlosser really lets us see how fast food industry was started and how it is costing us our health and environment.
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Summary: Reading for truth
Review: Fast Food Nation not only gives the history of the whole fast food market, but tells the truth of what really goes on inside the industry. Its one of those books which helps the reader realize that not everything is what it seems.
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Summary: Where's the Beef?
Review: Fast Food Nation was an excellent piece of research and reporting. The author starts with the humble beginnings of some of the food chains and moves into how greed has gotten the best of quality, and safety--Non-quality of food and as non-quality employers and the abuse and lack of safety for employees and employees of suppliers (i.e. meat). This book as a great eye opener for those who have never worked fast food and for those who view places such as McDonalds as helpful to the community, it reveals that it is far from that. It reveals how the chains often sacrifice customer safety for its bottom line when it knowingly sells tainted bacteria riddled meat to its customers. One great point that was brought up was how easy it would be for these monster food chains to make positive changes in how the meat is handled and how easily safety can become commonplace rather than a rarity in the meatpacking and food industry. It brings to light how little is needed to improve working conditions for all in this industry by providing healthcare and better pay. In addition, the author states that raising the meat humanely would take very little effort and be better for the livestock and for the consumer. It also hints that we can all help to bring about this change by hitting the greedy fast food chains where it hurts and where they will listen--in the wallet. This is a must read for everyone.
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Summary: The case for enforcement
Review: This case presents a great example of why government regulation with teeth and serious antitrust enforcement will assist us is preserving our capitalistic society. Without such efforts the promise of American society leaves so many without hope and the ability to grasp opportunity. We must take measures to ensure that industry work without boundaries that will not only preserve efficiency, but protect our public health, worker safety and socio-economic order.I found the book inspiring.
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Summary: Behind the counter of fast food
Review: The exploition of the fast food industry is very eye opening to say the least. The breath taking events that expose the fast food restaraunts keep you wanting to read. Although its tough to get by the first few chapters of the book where they explain how fast food got started after that its smooth sailing.
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Summary: Caution, you may never want fast food again
Review: Schlosser resurrects memories of Upton Sinclair and the muckrakers of the reform era with his investigative tale of America's love affair with the fast food industry. Organized to separately discuss business practices, history, working conditions, food preparation and numerous other topics, Nation draws the reader into the giant on every street corner that we rarely think about. Judging by the content and analysis, the book seems exhaustively researched and presents interviews and quotes from everyone from executives to the 16-year-old at the McDonalds drive thru. An intense read, it stimulates a great deal of thought regarding social and economic topics that swirl around our nation's largest employing industry. The social problems inherent to the fast food diet of Americans (i.e. obesity, disease, underpaid employees) are alone enough to make for a fantastic read, but the intriguing history of the emergence of the companies along with a look into the beef and potato industries make this book an instant classic.
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Summary: behind the scenes
Review: Kevin Henman
Period 2
3-26-04
Economics
Mr. Jimenez Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001,288 pages. Eric Schlosser, born in 1961, Eric is a successful author who wrote many books exposing different thing like the food industry and the jail system. Eric wrote Fast food nation, Reefer madness, and slaughter house blues three very successful books. Thesis: Fast Food Nation is a book that uncovers all the madness that goes on behind that walls of a fast food resturaunt. The discoveries of various things in people foods will make you want to think twice before your stop for something fast and easy because there's a catch to everything. Summary analysis: This book is about all the problems that fast food cause the USA. Not only obesity but the much worse problems like death and addiction. Throughout the course of the book it talks about all of these in how each fast food restaurant trys to get customers addicted to their food by altering the taste of things, and many different event were people died because of fast food. Throughout the book you will uncover all the disgusting things that go on in fast food resturaunts around your food and where the food comes from. Reviews:
1. "An exemplary blend of polemic and journalism . . . Full of sound, fury, and popping grease." --Kirkus Reviews (starred)
2. "'Fast Food Nation' should be another wake-up call, a super-size serving of common sense...." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Summary: A revelation
Review: This book tells an astonishing story about how the factory farming industry has dehumanized its workers. It is a true call to arms, in the sense that it conveys the urgency of fighting for regulatory reforms over an industry that is innately averse to limiting itself in any way.
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: This is hands down, the best and most informative book I have ever read. No matter who you are, you should read this book; in fact I think it should be a requirement for every person in America and even the world to read this book. It's a portrayal of the fast food industry I've never seen before, showing what really goes into the food America eats every day. The unsettling facts about how they treat their employees, what they put into their food and who they influence to stay at the top will affect the minds of readers forever. America will (hopefully) never eat the same.
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