Fast Food Dangers

Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation

Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That’s a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.

Schlosser’s myth-shattering survey stretches from California’s subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food’s flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths — from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.

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4 Stars Very informative-great for anti-christian liberals
I will admit, I learned a lot from this book and so glad that my family is already eating a vegan whole food high raw lifestyle. I am appalled at a lot of this as I know from working in fast food restaurants in the 80’s that much of this is true. I worked at A&W where lots of drug smuggling was going on and the place was finally shut down…Burger King and all the teens working there…we stayed up late hours working many dangerous jobs.

I don’t understand why so many immigrants are allowed to work in these places. I feel sorry for these people and the big wigs should be ashamed for treating anyone this way. It takes things into a new level. It isn’t even about the poor animals anymore…it’s the poor people as well!

The middle of the book begins to change into the authors own agenda about Republicans that really ticks me off. Don’t believe that for one minute. He needs to keep his views to himself and stick to the subject of his book.

This book was not what I expected, but very very good nonetheless besides all the right wing Republican bashing. I also didn’t appreciate a lot of the ‘church suppers’ being blamed for the majority of E-Coli. That is a load. I take it the writer is a left wing anti-christian/church person.

I am giving it a 4 because everyone needs to know what is going on in the industry but a I don’t like his own anti-church, anti-Republican rhetoric.

4 Stars chicken lover
The book was excellent. Some of the fast food history was a bit tedious, but would recommend. However, plan to give up burgers.

4 Stars Would you like fries with that?
“We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.” ~Steve Elbert

I have avoided reading this book simply because sometimes I prefer not to know some things. I like meat. I am a carnivorian, but I don’t necessarily want to know what’s going on in the slaughterhouses. I prefer ignorance. My curiousity finally got the best of me.

The book focuses on the following main points (among others):

- A history of how hamburgers and fries became the quintessential meal in the 50s

- A history of how some of our major fast food chains started

- The globalization of fast food

- The marketing bombardment of fast food on children (an utter success with my kids)

- The poor working conditions and low pay in the restaurants and slaughterhouses (not pretty)

- The dangers of working in a slaughterhouse (read with an empty stomach)

- The disappearing American farmer

- The rise in foodborne illnesses

- Mad cow disease (I am naive, I didn’t realize that they fed cows dead pigs, cows, horses, cats, dogs, etc.)

- The unfortunate power of the lobbyists in the meatpacking and fast food industries that keep their thumb on our government when it comes to health and safety issues

I enjoyed the book and am happy to be more educated on some of the issues, although sometimes you have to take some of the facts presented with a grain of salt. There are always two sides to a story. I wish I could say I wouldn’t go to a fast food restaurant again (not a fan) but my kids seem to have a lot of pull with me. Plus I am a sucker for a Chicken Bacon Swiss sandwich at Carl’s Jr…

Here are just a few of the facts/statistics that I found interesting:

- Americans spent $6 billion on fast food in 1970. We spent $110 billion in 2001

- Americans spend more money on fast food than on higher education, computers, software, or new cars

- Americans spend more money on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined

- McDonalds is the nation’s largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes, and the second largest purchaser of chicken

- An estimated 1 out of 8 workers in the U.S. has worked at McDonalds (not me)

- Americans drink soda at an annual rate of 56 gallons per person-600 12 oz. cans (yikes)

- A medium Coke selling for $1.29 contains only 9 cents of syrup (rip off and getting worse all the time-whatever happened to the 50 cent 32 ouncers I bought at Woods gas station?)

- 1/4 of American children between 2 and 5 have a TV in their bedroom (why?)

- Every month about 90% of American children between 3 and 9 visit a McDonalds

5 Stars Well-researched eye-opener
What got me interested in this book was of course, the cover. I was a “Mickey D’s” kid back in the 80s and this book addresses just that. All that I am now was explained in this book and it really opened my eyes to the atrocities that happen in the factories that supply our food in America. From illegal immigrants bringing disease into the slaughterhouses, to the diseases the slaughterhouses themselves cause, this book outlines every disgusting process that is practiced to this day. Because of this, I have learned to ditch fast food altogether, not just because I was appalled at where these corporations get our food from, but because I could see that our entire country is dependent on these corporations and unnecessarily so. I think this book should be recommended reading at the high school level, as the author talks about how fast food preys upon teenagers not only because the food is cheap but because fast food jobs are always available to the young and especially the uneducated. This book will change your opinion, and if not that, will definitely make you think twice about our food sources and how the United States of America is currently operating.

4 Stars interesting
very interesting and informal you learn so much about the meat industry and chains like mc donalds etc.

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5 Stars Easy and Flexible
This video is very easy and flexible to use. You can start or stop it at various points so that you can arrange the workout suited for you. The picture and sound is excellent. The explanatory process is easy to understand. It is for beginners to get started with Yoga or for those who want to maintain a moderate Yoga program.

5 Stars The missing ingredient!
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I love the bright set, the happy music, the encouraging instruction, the exercises are fun, and the yoga works!

5 Stars Great Feeling after Finishing
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