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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (4 April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141006870
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141006871
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
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Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser's disturbing and timely exploration of one of the world's most controversial industries, has become a massive bestseller in America and rightly deserves to be so this side of the pond. On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its cheapness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems harmless. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenisation and speediness has radically transformed the West's diet, landscape, economy and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways.

Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. However, he rapidly moves behind the counter to the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavour company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns". Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--faeces in your meat.

Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of regulation. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting and unsanitary practices that introduced E.coli and other pathogens into restaurants, schools and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young", insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behaviour", he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Truly a great blow against the Obese Mammon, 23 Jun 2004
I was given this book by a vegetarian, hardly a recommendation as far as I'm concerned. Furthermore, I have a deep suspicion of journalists writing books, and American journalists in particular. Mea maxima culpa, I must confess. Schlosser has a fantastic style; in direct contrast to Naomi Klein in No Logo, this North American manages to intersperse his writing with a mountain of facts which do not overburden the text, but successfully manage to support his findings. He takes the reader on a history tour of the fast food industry. The beginnings of MacDonald's and other fast food chains; their evolution from cottage industries to monsters of modern capitalism. Their growing influence, the role of their lobbyists, the impact they have on agriculture, on schools on employment law, on food production processes, Schlosser covers everything including food scares that had even me worried and doubtful that I would eat another hamburger to the taste producing factories outside New York. I thought that he wouldn't tell me anything new; much of what he writes about the impact on the diets of children, the way in which these firms have changed dramatically since they began and their impact on employment law, I expected. But the tales he has of working conditions in the abattoirs, the importance of the fast food employers on maintaining an appallingly low minimum wage and many other elements surprised me. I thought I wouldn't learn anything from this book and I was wrong. It's fantastically well-written, intelligently well-researched and properly avoids levelling any accusations at the restaurants. Schlosser doesn't preach, he reports and he does so exceptionally well.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A compelling read that's not for the faint-hearted., 4 Jun 2001
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As a person who eats a burger once in a blue moon anyway, this book won't radically change my eating patterns, but it has certainly made me think twice about grabbing something quick from a fast food restaurant as opposed to having a "proper" meal.

It seems outrageous that the giant meat companies can get away with low wages, poor hygiene and dangerous working environments. And interesting to note that McDonalds discourages unions, mostly pays a minimum wage and cleverly avoids paying overtime.

I live overseas and can confirm that although McDonalds have discontinued the polystyrene burger containers in the US, they are still readily available here, where they cause just as much of an environmental concern as anywhere else in the world.

I really admire the author for taking on the big fast food corporations and spilling the beans on the gorey details of how we get our minced meat patties. I think I'll be asking the butcher to mince a steak right in front of my eyes, in future!

If you are thinking about getting this book, I would encourage you to do so. I found I couldn't put it down once I got started.

You might be tempted to have a cod and chips instead the next time your tummy rumbles.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing., 13 May 2002
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I thought this was going to be another one of those foam-in-the-mouth anti-business exposes that aim for a quick impression and then leave you with a bunch of unanswered questions. How wrong..

This is an extremely well written and researched book; fluid investigative journalism is combined with facts and statistics that are impressivelly backed-up by 60 pages of notes and bibliography.

Far from being one-sided and polemic, the writer's style is even-handed and sober, if sometimes caustic. He comes across as genuinely concerned with improving the food industry, rather than gaining a reputation for himself.

Mr. Schlosser's findings are nothing less than astonishing (read the book and see what I mean); his calm, collected manner makes them all the more believable and disturbing.

This is a MUST READ book.

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