Dark Side of Fast Food

Dark Side of Fast Food Eric Schlosser is a journalist that is renown for his investigative journalism, all of his investigative pieces are deeply informative and marvelously readable. From our core reading, “ Fast Food Nation: Why The Fries Taste Good,” he carries out a very detailed investigation and tries to unfold the secret of the fries. In the same way, in his book, “Chew on this: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food,” he uses descriptions that are so precise and concise to carry his readers along with his writing style and critic the fast food industry. As an experienced writer, Schlosser strategically uses various type of writing skill to establish relationship between his contents and readers by including systematic narrative of history, personal experience and very detailed descriptions in his writing. He knows how to embrace logos and ethos in his writing effectively to make his writing attractive and guide the readers through his investigative story. His writing style creates a sense that is so reality and the readers can easily relate the content of his writing to their life experience. To gain full perspective on a certain topic, it is very important to begin the story with the history of a particular event. In “Fast Food Nation: Why The Fries Taste So Good,” Schlosser wants to let readers know what makes the fries taste good and he begins with telling the story of J.R. Simplot who was the founder of frozen fries (Schlosser). He tells Simplot’s story in a chronologically way and shows how the young Simplot became the greatest potato baron in America’s history. Simplot was born into a family of homesteader in 1909. With his entrepreneurial spirit and eagerness for successful life, he dropped out of school and left his house at the age of fifteen to begin his venture life. He strived hard for his life goals and made his way to become a wealthy businessman in the age of only thirty-six years old (Schlosser). After Schlosser gives a brief

Cited: Schlosser, E. (2010). Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: Why the Fries Taste Good (Excerpt). PBS. Retrieved June 18, 2014, from http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/fastfoodnation_01.php