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Summary: you are what you eat...
Review: Most everyone will find something to hate in Eric Schlosser's book, and perhaps a fair number will find a lot to hate about the author himself (he is very left wing, and he is long at pointing fingers and short on providing viable alternatives). 'Fast Food Nation' was a bit of a surprise. I expected a lot McDonalds bashing, plus depressing reading on how unhealthy junk food really is. And yes, Eric Schlosser does deliver these messages very clearly. But fortunately he has a lot more to say.'Fast Food Nation' is a seemingly endless hate-a-rama by Eric Schlosser. Fortunately, what he hates is really bad stuff: abused animals, abused meatpackers, abused employees of money hungry corportate giants, abused consumers, etc. Some of his observations, seemingly well-researched, are most shocking and horrific. He doesn't blast so much the fast food companies as much as he blasts the terrible social costs incurred by them. And he is mercilous to the (seemingly all Republican) politicians who collude with these companies (and their suppliers). The best I can say about 'Fast Food Nation' is that I learned a lot. Yes, probably much of it is biased and unfair journalism. But sadly most of it is undoubtedly true. Bottom line: mandatory and uncomfortable reading.
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Summary: surprised me
Review: This book shocked me about the way the fast food stores do their work, and cover stuff up, a bit leaning to the left
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Summary: This is very good, i like it much.
Review: Ask most people who protest eating at McDonalds why and they will probably give you an answer like because they kill lots of cows. Finally some one has written a book that can give a full answer to that question.
This book is spectacular.
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Summary: Bad data and a lack of logic *
Review: Typical socialist drivel.
what The Wall Street Journal called "cavalier manipulation of data." *
consumerfreedom has a good review on their web site. *consumerfreedom
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Summary: Eye opening, cutting edge journalism that educates you!
Review: This is an incredible book about not only the fast food business and its effects on all aspects on the economy and society but a look at the hidden costs that we all pay as a society thru this cultural movement of eating and living on fast food. This book shocks a person when you read about the innocent people who are injured or have their lives destroyed by working at slaugherhouses with dangerous conditions. However, the book also tells the amazing stories of how ordinary men launched fast food empires with American ingenuity and persistance and hard work.
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Summary: Unreal
Review: This book should be required reading for every high schooler in this country. It's about so much more than the fast food industry, specifically man's inhumanity to man on a staggering number of levels. A great read crammed with facts and research.
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Summary: McPolemic
Review: Eric Schlosser writes the most riveting, frightening book I have read since Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and this book is all fact. Brilliant research, cross-referencing, and analysis combined with poignant stories of people virtually destroyed by "McCulture." It is one of the few books that has radically, both while reading and after reflecting on it, that has radically shifted my paradigms concerning fast food, the meat industry, and corporate America. An added bonus: it is the best book for those who want to diet...
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Summary: But I still love hamburgers
Review: An amazing tale of food, greed, and the treachery of modern corporate food retailers. The story of the slaughterhouse worker is terrifying, and the french fry story is fascinating (McDonald's fries still gets my vote, regardless of the huge markup). If you want to know how you are being manipulated into craving fatty, low quality food, this is your book. It's like the X Files of food, except this one has sources to back up the claims.
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Summary: Investigative, Disturbing
Review: I'm a junk food fan. Taco Bell, Mickey D's, etc. Good stuff. Or so I thought. In "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser rips apart every aspect of the fast food industry. Nothing is sacred, and though my one of my first jobs was at a famous burger chain, I'm wondering now if I'll allow my kids to work at one, or their competition. At first, I thought the book was going to be another "too much salt, too much fat" kind of slam against the dietary weakness of fast food. Far from it. Instead, Schlosser looks poisons, advertising, corporate farms, even how French fries are cut. Schlosser is thorough, with an index bigger than you'd expect. He's organized, yet writes in an engaging style, not letting the subject stifle readability. I fully recommend "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: How fast food has changes nations - for the worse
Review: BR>Schlosser did a fantastic job in this book showing how freeways opened up America and with that came mobile food, fast food.
Then he shows how the growth of fast food changed our eating habits, body fat ratio, advertising, the meat industry, potato farming, the flavor industry and a million other things you'd never think of- and almost all those changes not for the better.
Truly interesting and a little disturbing. Frankly I'm not sure I'll ever eat any fast food again. At least not until changes are made in the industry (mainly the cleanliness) and Schlosser even provides suggestions how we can make a difference.
My favorite part is his impartial attitude and how frank he is on the subject. He doesn't get too preachy and even admits to eating a lot of this food while writing the book. Ok, finding out the fries at Mc D's are not vegetarian was pretty cool too. Man that steamed my buddies girlfriend, HA!
I've passed this onto my fiancée and a friend as well as recommending it to anyone looking for a good, informative read.
Check it out.
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