On December 1, 2016 I rented from Amazon prime, Fast Food Nation, a movie directed by Richard Linklater. Screenplay was written by Richard Linklater and the author of the book by the same name, Eric Schlosser. The film opens with Don Anderson, family man and the Marketing director of a Mickey’s Burgers learning that there is high count of E Coli bacteria in Mickey’s “Big One” burger. His department is marketing; he does not understand what he is being told so he is told in a manner anyone could understand, “There is shit in the meat.” The company CEO sends Don on a trip to the town of Cody, Colorado the home to the one and only meat packer of the Mickey’s “Big One” burger patties and the location of the first Mickey’s Fast Food Restaurant.
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Uni-Global is a fictitious slaughter and meat packing company Mr. Linklater makes up for the film. The insider view of Uni-Global is the center of the film. We see it from the illegal alien workers point of view. We are taken along with Don Anderson the marketing director from Mickey’s Corporate Headquarters on a whitewashed cleaner than God tour of the meat packing plant. Mr. Linklater does not break the fourth wall and talk directly to his audience instead he visually informs us of the cold treatment of the workers in the plant and the inhuman treatment of the cattle in the holding pens awaiting slaughter. I was repulsed by Uni-Global. I nearly wept when Sylvia is forced to sell herself sexually to Mike for a position on the gut table only to be placed on the kill floor instead. It is at the moment when a cow enters the cattle chute and I saw the gun come up to a place behind the cow’s ear that I stopped the film. I was not able to watch anymore.
So in conclusion: my aversions to fast foods, especially hamburgers have been reinforced by the film, Fast Food Nation. I can no longer overlook how that burger got on the bun. Even if the “Big One” was a superfood not laden with salt, and shit. I cannot contribute to corporate greed by purchasing their product. Buying the “Big One” has taken on a whole new meaning to
Uni-Global is a fictitious slaughter and meat packing company Mr. Linklater makes up for the film. The insider view of Uni-Global is the center of the film. We see it from the illegal alien workers point of view. We are taken along with Don Anderson the marketing director from Mickey’s Corporate Headquarters on a whitewashed cleaner than God tour of the meat packing plant. Mr. Linklater does not break the fourth wall and talk directly to his audience instead he visually informs us of the cold treatment of the workers in the plant and the inhuman treatment of the cattle in the holding pens awaiting slaughter. I was repulsed by Uni-Global. I nearly wept when Sylvia is forced to sell herself sexually to Mike for a position on the gut table only to be placed on the kill floor instead. It is at the moment when a cow enters the cattle chute and I saw the gun come up to a place behind the cow’s ear that I stopped the film. I was not able to watch anymore.
So in conclusion: my aversions to fast foods, especially hamburgers have been reinforced by the film, Fast Food Nation. I can no longer overlook how that burger got on the bun. Even if the “Big One” was a superfood not laden with salt, and shit. I cannot contribute to corporate greed by purchasing their product. Buying the “Big One” has taken on a whole new meaning to