08 May 2012 “Fast Food Nation”: A Critique The essay‚ “Fast Food Nation‚” is effective in persuading audiences to think before you eat. Eric Schlosser‚ a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly‚ clearly has a point he wants to get across‚ but allows readers to make up their own minds. He provides many facts to back his point and has a willingness to present both sides of the issues. Schlosser is straightforward and clear in his writing. He also tries at times to make facts
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I am currently a student at Delphos Jefferson Senior High School‚ and we recently read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser in our senior English class. It is a nonfiction novel that discusses the dark side of American fast food. As we’ve been reading‚ I’ve realized that a large amount of students at Jefferson Senior High drink soda purchased at school-offered vending machines. While these students are young adults and can make their own health related decisions‚ our responsibility as a school is to
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Fast Food Nation The first half of the book Fast Food Nation written by Eric Schlosser expresses the profound outcomes of fast food in America starting from its creation to today. Some of these examples include: more employment opportunities for teenagers‚ the creation of successful franchise owners‚ and a new revolutionary way to buy food. Schlosser talks about the major effect that fast food companies have made in the life of teenagers. According to Schlosser‚ “Teenagers have long provided the
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Fast Food Nation Obesity has grown into a rampant issue all over the United States‚ over the past few decades. Fast foods also have increased their outlets in the nation‚ in turn‚ depicting a success in the business venture. It is clear that fast foods have become quite cheap in comparison to healthy‚ homemade meals. Subsequently‚ people have turned to eat fast foods for economic reasons. Convenience is yet another reason behind people’s high indulgence in eating fast foods other than healthy‚
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Maltreatment of Slaughterhouse Workers In the book Fast Food Nation‚ Eric Schlosser talks about the working conditions of fast food meat slaughterhouses. In the chapter "The Most Dangerous Job‚" one of the workers‚ who despised his job‚ gave Schlosser an opportunity to walk through a slaughterhouse. As the author was progressed backwards through the slaughterhouse‚ he noticed how all the workers were sitting very close to each other with steel protective vests and knives. The workers were mainly
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Throughout Fast Food Nation‚ there are many topics and issues discussed that bring the reader to question one’s self and their eating habits. While reading through‚ I had a burning question that seemed like a reasonable thing to wonder. How was fast food evolved or changed since it’s upbringing? With a little research and some strategic digging‚ I was able to find some information that would lead me to a satisfying answer. With the start up of McDonalds in the late 1940’s‚ fast food was a new and
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There are fast-food restaurant advertisements on almost every street corner‚ trying to grab attention by billboards‚ commercials‚ sign spinning‚ and more. In the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser he begins to describe how the first two major individuals invented their now multibillion dollar companies which who were Carl Karcher and the McDonald’s brothers. First with Carl N. Karcher‚ who is the founder of what is now called Carl’s Jr. He was born in 1917 near Upper Sandusky‚ Ohio‚ where he
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is there‚ easily filling the new open position. Complaints don’t help either‚ as found by Gail Eisnitz‚ also cited in Reprt:Line Speed‚ Injuries Increase for Slaughterhouse Workers‚ “Slaughterhouse workers talk of a production system that moves to fast…despite numerous complaints to management—as
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don’t want to get out of them to eat!” This quote from the book intrigues me; the more I thought about this line from “Fast Food Nation” I realized that it was more and more correct. Ever since the invention of the automobile and the affordability of it us Americans have become lazy. We resort to going through a drive through then getting out or going home and making our own food. 2. “The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.” This makes me sick; the fact that we have
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Outline I) Introduction: Fast Food Nation is a book in which Eric Schlosser did not hold any detail back. His ideas are very much similar to Hank Cardello who expressed his feelings in his best seller Stuffed and a article labeled Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. All of these topics touch upon the problem of obesity‚ low wages‚ and unethical issues. II) Topic Sentence 1: Obesity was on of the most talked about issues within all the texts. -Detail/Example- One out of every three American
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