Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser uncovers the truth behind fast food and how it came to dominate the world. Wernher Von Braun, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc -- each of this historical figures had a huge impact and influence on topics that the book “Fast Food Nation” discusses in it’s content. Each of those men truly believed that spreading “fast food paradise” throughout the world would bring an unrespectable success, and will make people to be “like Americans”, which means “modernized” and “progressive”. This research type book discusses such major topics as advertising, agriculture and technologies, work labour, founding fathers of fast food, biographical-based stories of people suffering from illness cause by eating this type of food, their experiences as the workers of the slaughterhouses. Catchy melody, easy worlds, clowns dancing and singing around, skinny people eating Big Mac with a huge smile on their face…All of it comes together and makes a commercial, that would encourage people to come and visit fast food restaurant. Every fast food place has some kind of distinguishing commercial, sign, logo or mascot. that's what fast food “kings” are counting on -- curiosity, people’s innocence, the absence of patience, because we want or food right here and right now. McDonald’s is not only the most …show more content…
He, inspired by visiting McDonald’s brother’s burger bar in San Bernarido, California, made a deal with the brothers to spread their restaurant throughout the country, with a driving mission of speed and value. The first McDonald's franchise under Kroc's management opened in his home state of Illinois in 1955. In 22 years of business, the company made a billion dollars, and along the way became a symbol of American business as well as a major owner of American real estate, creating not only “food places”, but also a part of the