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

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Summary: Lose Weight Now! Read this book.
Review: If nothing else - this book will make you more aware of the food you put in your mouth. Never again knowing what you know will you want to walk into McD's or the BK, stare the poor underpaid help in the face and shove that food down your throat. You'll demand things like decent nutrition and that the people who wait on you are treated like you would want to be treated. This book will change your thinking. If nothing else - it will wake you up to the Fast Food Nation around you.

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Summary: Fast Food Nation
Review: This is one of the most informative books that I have read in a long time. My hope would be that it will have the same impact the the Upton Sinclair novel. I am asking all my children to read the book.

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Summary: McCrap No More!
Review: You know how you know something is bad and you kind of make up your mind to avoid it but after a while you forget it or don't think about it because it's just too convenient and hell, everyone else is doing it and dammit you're hungry. I mean, of course, patronizing fast food "restaurants". This book reveals the insidious evil you walk away from the counter with on that brown plastic tray or from the pick-up window in the big paper bag. Well written, well researched, thoroughly convincing, if reading this book doesn't make you swear off fast food for good, nothing will. The fast food fat cats should be shaking in their shoes!

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Summary: Eye-opening account of how fast food has changed the country
Review: What a fantastic book. Whether you're a fast food junkie, or just stop by a restaurant on occasion, this book will open up your eyes to what goes into making establishments like these work. From the treatment of workers in meat packing plants (eerily, not a drastic change from the days of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), to the unionized labor forces being turned down at every attempt, to how food tastes the way it does - this will certainly make you think twice before patronizing the next Burger King or McDonald's on your route.

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Summary: very informative using alarming statistics
Review: I think each and everyone of us who has ever tasted anything from a fast food place (so is there anyone who doesn't apply?), knows them but still chooses to deny the facts about how meals are "assemled" in the great fast food factory. And the facts remain:"...the shakes and sodas begin as..syrups..the quacamole isn't made by workers in the kitchen, it's made at a factory in Michacin, Mexico...the beans are dehydrated and look like brownish corn flakes. The cooking process is fairly simple: Everything's just add water!". Mr.Schoesser has spend 2 years researching the material for this book. it covers everything from the beginning of McDonald-Karcher era to the modern day sloughter-houses where every hour ~ 400 cattles are being butchered. I'm glad that I've finally sat down to read this book. It provides you with most valuable information on the subject of not only fast food industry but why a human arm is worth $36,000! (Chapter 8, must read). I also recommend John Connor's "Fodd Processing: An Industrial Powerhouse in Transition".

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Summary: Excellent!! Easy to read; hard to digest.
Review: After reading Schlosser's book I am convinced its too late. We have become a nation of overstuffed, overprocessed, homoginized clones. If you don't pay much attention to what you eat; what about your children? If you are unconcerend with the terrible conditions slaughterhouse workers contend with; give it some thought next time you are in church. If you think you are free--------think again. Although Schlosser doesn't get into the moral equation one must take note after reading this well written expose of the fast food and food processing industry.

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Summary: We Are What We Eat
Review: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is an interesting, revealing and thought provoking look at the fast food industry. The book opens with Mr. Schlosser detailing the origins of fast food restaurants that began in Southern California. He spends a good deal of time with the leader in fast food chains, McDonald's. One would think that Ray Kroc actually founded it, but he didn't. It was actually started as a lone restaurant in San Bernadino, CA by two brothers named McDonald. Mr. Kroc was a salesman who took the idea of the chain and franchised it throughout the nation. But the book isn't just about the restaurants themselves, but the industries that supply them with their meat, potatoes and the like. Mr. Schlosser focuses in on the meatpacking industry and he artfully skewers the almost medieval work environments that the industry leaders allow to exist. You read about the startling callousness that the industries have towards their employees. Mr. Schlosser also comments on the influence that the fast food industry has over our culture as a whole. He has a mixed view of what the fast food industry is. He respects and admires what the founders of the various chains and other industries did in their starting up of their companies. They were inventive, industrious and determined to succeed. But somewhere along the line, greed and the bottom line crept in. After reading Fast Food Nation, you may think twice about the next time you step into a McDonald's or buy a piece of meat from the supermarket.

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Summary: Makes you think about where the food comes from
Review: given the recent meat scares, this book will only push you farther away from wanting fast food ever again. the beginning is a bit slow since it dwells on life stories from within the service side of the industry. the last half is the real meat of the book. but i suppose the point of the book is to somehow put a human face on the automaton that is the fast food industry. also makes you realize what a force for positive change that the industry could become if it chose to do so (as if!).

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Summary: McDonaldization Devouring Our Culture And Our Health
Review: Very interesting book that was even-handed and well-researched. Schlosser was very objective and did not bash. He presented the facts and provided the historical development of our fast food nation and now, our fast-food world. The author provided a complete approach to the many issues that exist in the fast-food explosion which has taken place over the last few decades and the severe ramifications we now face. This book examines the history, growth, business practices, marketing, food-science, flavoring chemicals, R & D Research, and the politics and influence of American fast-food. Ample amounts of statistics and data are available. What are the politics behind the interests of these mammoth companies? Where is fast-food political money sent? This book tells us.

Not only has this homogenization run rampant throughout the United States, but now it is happening world-wide right in front of us. When protesters in foreign nations attack and vandalize U.S. installations do they target our embassy, or military installations? Now attacks and vandalism of McDonald's and other fast-food restaurants like KFC, are the most assaulted statistically, from S.E. Asia to Europe. The world-wide explosion of certain fast-food restaurants is methodical and carefully planned. The number of McDonald's that open per day across the world is a frightening statistical fact.

Obesity in the United states has exploded to epidemic proportions according to the medical community. What do we believe is the reason behind this epidemic? And now, obesity is rising tremendously in nations once the most healthy such as Japan and China. Heart Disease, the number 1 killer in America is now rising in These nations as well as others. What could be the reason for this?

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Summary: Not just an indictment of the fast food industry
Review: Must-read book which is as much of a statement about american mass culture as it is about the depredations in the fast food industry. Not ideological, Schlosser really makes one think about the implications of such important social issues as our national highway system or government funding of job training programs and how these have bred a superficial fast food culture. Well-researched and provocative, this book is a fascinating marker on public policy in the US.

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