Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation

There are multiple problems that the author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, mentions. Many people may disagree on Schlosser’s point of view on his stand on fast food companies, but there are other people such as myself that agree on many of Schlosser’s points. A few points that I agree with Schlosser are the working conditions that minors and immigrants have to work in, the mystery in the mystery meat, and the meatpacking industry. Schlosser loves to talk about how bad the working conditions are for the workers. Most of the workers are either teenagers or immigrants that speak english as their second language. In Eric Schlosser’s, Fast Food Nation, Schlosser says, “Many of the workers involved were minors and recent immigrants” (Schlosser 75). He also mentioned how a high school dropout named Regina Jones was only paid for forty hours when she worked for eighty hours. One way that America can address this problem is by having a law …show more content…
In Eric Schlosser’s, Fast Food Nation, Schlosser says, “Roughly thirty-five million pounds of ground beef produced at the Columbus plant -- enough meat to provide every single American with a tainted fast food hamburger -- was voluntarily recalled by Hudson Foods in August of 1997” (Schlosser 194). Even though this occurred about nineteen years ago, it is still a problem today. In the news, Chipotle has also been traced with E Coli and the meat has been recalled. It is scary thinking that even after all these years, there can still be traces of E Coli in fast food restaurants today. A way to stop E Coli being in fast food meats is by actually having the meat being inspected by the FDA at all times. “Who watches the watchers?” (Plato). Who watches the FDA do their work on inspecting meat? There should be people that solely focus their jobs on watching over the