Book Report # 1 Fast Food Nation 1. Fast Food Nation‚ by Eric Schlosser. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. There are 270 pages including the epilogue. 2. Fast Food Nation is about unleashing the unsettling truths of the fast food industry. Eric Schlosser wanted to inform the American people about the reality of the fast food industry‚ in hopes to change people’s behaviors and awareness on what probably has had the biggest impact on American society. Our countries landscapes‚ the gap
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into a fast food restaurant - let’s say McDonalds for example – and you order yourself a salad. You made the conscious decision on ordering that salad because you wanted to eat something that was considered healthy instead of the order of large fries that were calling your name. In Eric Schlosser’s book‚ “Fast food nation”‚ and Mark Bittman’s TED Talk: “What’s wrong with what we eat”‚ the issue of overeating is brought up and a question arises. We must eat to survive and we enjoy eating food that
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Dialectical Journal – Fast Food Nation 1. “Hundreds of millions of people buy fast food every day without giving it much thought‚ unaware of the subtle and not so subtle ramifications of their purchases. They rarely consider where this food came from‚ how it was made‚ what it is doing to the community around them. They just grab their tray off the counter‚ find a table‚ take a seat‚ unwrap the paper‚ and dig in” (Schlosser 10). In this passage from the introduction‚ Eric Schlosser directly states
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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
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Fast Food Nation Fast Food Nation‚ by Eric Schlosser is an informative book on how fast food has taken an important place in our country‚ and how our country depends on it to run functionally. Schlosser uses facts and his own opinions‚ along with biographies to better explain fast food. The book describes the way fast food came into our country‚ and how it gradually grew into the nation’s top industry. It also shows how chain stores like McDonald’s target children through their advertisement. The
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"Issues Surrounding the Nation’s Slaughterhouses" In the book‚ Fast Food Nation‚ Eric Schlosser discusses the problems that the nation is facing with fast food restaurants. Schlosser wrote this book because he was concerned with where the fast food industry was taking America. He voices his concern about the children and their health regarding meat bacteria‚ and the fat content of the food. He also mentions how potato farmers‚ cattle ranchers‚ and chicken raisers are suffering from the industry
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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
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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
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Richard Simplot during an interview about his simplots plant. Growing up on a small farm in Idaho he felt the need to venture out on his own‚ he moved away by the young age of fifteen and began to work at a potato warehouse. By time he reached the age sixteen he became a potato farmer‚ he began to work with his landlord sorting potatoes with an electric potato sorter that they both purchased‚ John was able to win the electric sorter on a coin toss against his landlord were he than began to open his
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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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