Essay On Fast Food Nation

There are variety types of food that can be found in today’s modern world. But today’s society prefer fast food as their main meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner since fast food can be obtain at a very cheap price and easily. People do not realize the bad effects that fast food bring to their health. The question is “Is it worth it to gamble our own health for cheap food?”. I believe most people answer for the question will be no. In the Fast Food Nation novel by Eric Schlosser and Food Inc. movie by Eric Schlosser and Micheal Pollan, both of the information sources explained more about fast food industries and the secrets behind their food. There many differences and similarities in the movie and the novel and these including the on what …show more content…
documentary. In the novel, the author explained about workers for slaughterhouse were hired from Mexico because the slaughterhouse wanted to save cost since the owner of the slaughterhouse can pay lower wage to foreigners. The slaughterhouse provided a shuttle bus from Mexico to the slaughterhouse for its workers. This process was done illegally and the government did not act anything to prevent this case from happening even though the government know about it. Similarly in the documentary, it also describe about illegal immigrants workers waged by slaughterhouse. Some of the illegal immigrants stayed in America because it is easier for them to go to work. Then, a few of the workers were caught by the immigrations and police officers. The slaughterhouse did not even take responsible to defend or fight for its workers. From my opinion, the employer should be responsible to hire his or her workers legally by following the correct procedures. When the correct procedures were omitted, the workers might be caught by the police officers and things will become more complicated. Court also might put charges on the employer and the slaughterhouse and this will direct the slaughterhouse to bankruptcy instead of gaining more