Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal‚ by Eric Schlosser. Perennial of HarperCollins Publishers‚ 2002. 383 pp.‚ $13.95. ³As American as a small‚ rectangular‚ hand-held‚ frozen‚ and reheated apple pie.² (p. 3) Far from being a run of the mill expose on calories and fat grams in fast food‚ Fast Food Nation is a hard-hitting critique of the industrialization of America¹s and‚ later‚ the world¹s food supply. The consequences of this industrialization have far-reaching effects
Premium Fast Food Nation Fast food restaurant Fast food
Fast Food Nation Fast Food Nation‚ by Eric Schlosser‚ is a stark and unrelenting look into the fast food industry that has ingrained itself in not only American culture‚ but in culture around the world. There is almost no place on earth that the golden arches has not entered. Aside from Antarctica‚ there is a McDonalds on every continent‚ and the number of countries that have fast food restaurants is growing on a daily basis. Schlosser describes in detail what happens behind the scenes‚ before
Premium Hamburger Fast food restaurant Fast food
FAST FOOD NATION Section I - The American Way Introduction and Chapter 1 - The Founding Fathers Life in the 1950’s was unlike any previous decade. It was the culmination of the previous 50 years of expansion‚ industrialization‚ depression and two world wars. The baby boom began. Families were moving to the suburbs. The accessibility of the automobile and the integrated open highway gave the average citizen a freedom and mobility never seen before. As a result‚ industries and businesses sprang
Premium Fast food restaurant Fast food Hamburger
RIVERA‚ Ma. Elizabeth B. 2010140469 MGT200-1/BY01 1.) Develop a comparative PEST Matrix for the Philippines with another country (the US‚ any one of the BRIC economies or a SE Asian country). 2.) All information should be attributed properly to their source. Political Factor Government PHILIPPINES Unitary presidential constitutional republic Head of the state/chief executive is President elected by the citizen for a single six year term. Cabinet is appointed by the president. Oil Industry commission
Premium Indonesia Tax Philippines
PEST Analysis for Newspaper Industry Using the PEST analysis to assess the macro environment of the newspaper industryshows that the technology and recession are two of the major factors that have beenaffecting the newspaper industry as well as the socio cultural side. Technology The Internet‚ a powerful and advance technology‚ has changed the model of masscommunication. The Internet has had a major impact on the external environment of thenewspaper industry and has been gradually substituting
Premium Newspaper Advertising Internet
FAST FOOD NATION Section I - The American Way Chapter 2 - Your Trusted Friends The concepts of conformity and organizational homogenization‚ while repugnant in a democratic society‚ can actually aid big businesses and more specifically franchises in promoting quality assurance and brand loyalty. Large corporations‚ such as McDonald’s‚ are able to maintain stability and control by removing any factors that may create unfamiliarity for their customers. The goal of McDonald’s is to create a fast
Premium Hamburger Franchising Fast food
America’s Fast Food Epidemic This year Americans will spend over $110 billion on fast food alone. Fast food is most definitely not good for you. Fast food is usually high in fat‚ calories‚ cholesterol and sodium. Fast food restaurants add lots of salt and other additives to make their food taste good. Eating fast food for long periods of time can cause high blood pressure‚ heart disease and obesity. Fast food is not good for you because it is highly addictive‚ it costs too much and it is very
Premium Fast food restaurant Hamburger Nutrition
Chubby America: Fast Food Schools Rene Robledo Strayer University Chubby America: Fast Food Schools Childhood obesity has grown rapidly over the years‚ and with it health problems such as type one and two diabetes‚ and high blood pressure. It is most likely that a child who is already overweight will reach obesity at adulthood. With obesity a major growing problem in America the government decided to act by passing a law‚ The Healthy‚ Hunger-free Kids Act. The bill allows the U.S. Department
Premium Nutrition Food Obesity
Justin Pomasl & Danielle Walinski Soc 101 Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:15-6:30 Fast Food Research Paper Fast Food Fixation An 18 year old senior at Seymour Community High School‚ Marissa‚ loves fast food. She makes numerous visits to either the local DQ Grill and Chill‚ or McDonald’s every single day. Even though it has been proven that it is not a wise choice to include fast food into one’s daily diet‚ thousands‚ even millions‚ of people‚ such as Marissa‚ still make the decision to eat it‚ which can
Free Sociology Social structure Social class
Fast Food Healthier than Cafeteria food? Many people think that fast food is bad for our health and that it shouldn’t be allowed in school. More healthful options should be promoted but what’s the use of healthy food in school if the kids don’t want to eat it? Nobody least of all adults LIKE eating healthy if given a choice everyone always goes for the fast food.When we eat lunch at school we get the bad end of the stick. they feed us cardboard pizza‚ meat that isn’t even meat and has been
Premium Nutrition Fast food Heart disease