I wish Schlosser had touched upon chicken as well and the ‘pink sludge’ substance that I’ve heard about in school lunches. I don’t eat beef for dietary reasons so I wasn’t as bothered by the information in this book as those who eat beef might be. I learned a lot about food production, especially beef, that I didn’t know before. While there were several facts I could tell immediately were biased, they were much farther between than many other non-fiction exposes. I thought the information would be much more biased than it was. I was more shocked that it was milder than expected. I wasn’t overly shocked by the content of this book because of the title. After ‘Super Size Me,’ it’s a welcome change. Coli disease, but his tone is more to inform than to scare. He does have to touch on the darker sides of fast food (as his title implies) such as the realities of working in a slaughter-house and the potential spread of E. Schlosser focuses on the economic impacts of the fast food industry as well as the health problems Americans face as a result of consumption. He takes us back to the McDonald brothers churning out milkshakes as fast as they could and Ray Kroc seeing a future of golden arches across the country. Rather than focus exclusively on the health benefits (or lack there of) of fast food, Schlosser looks at the history of the industry first. Fast Food Nation: The Dark side of the All American Meal by Eric Schlosser
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