Eric Schlosser

All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser is a 288-page, non-fiction novel that divulges the ugly consequences which affect our culture when billions of people around the globe buy fast food every day. This book discusses both the origins of fast food after World War II in America and the ins-and-outs of the fast food industry which are not often considered, including unsanitary working conditions, tainted meat, corporate greed, and the harmful environmental effects. Eric Schlosser wrote Fast Food…

When using three rhetoric tenets in writing, writers can create a very persuasive argument. By using ethos, logos and pathos, an argument can be made stronger and get more attention from the audience. This is seen in Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation in which he uses ethos, logos, and pathos widely to better display his argument. By using these rhetorical ideas, his writing is very persuasive and makes a solid argument towards the fast food industry in the United States. The use of ethos is…

In Kid Kustomers Schlosser opens a discussion to the public about how marketing campaigns created a system that not only has an end goal of receiving millions of dollars but how the children of America will easily get it for them. To achieve this, Schlosser uses tools such as statistics and facts. Whilst simultaneously persuading the reader to understand how we as people can be at fault to participating in the strategies that marketers use.Schlosser is fully aware that everyone is a consumer and…

Second article is called “Why the Fries Taste Good” by Eric Schlosser. His article is the story of one of the richest men in Idaho, J. R. Simplot. The article starts in vivid detail about the looks, production, and manufacturing of the Simplot potato plant. Schlosser then tells about Simplots life. Simplot started working in a potato warehouse where he and his partner purchased an “electric potato sorter”. Later after the partners departed Simplot found a method for drying potatoes. This is when…

In the article “Why McDonalds Fries Taste So Good” by Eric Schlosser, he first deliberates on the evolution of McDonald’s fries, from being just another fry into becoming one of the most popular food commodities in the fast food industry. The article emphasizes on the similarities between natural and artificial flavors, which are both manmade, but contain chemicals that stimulate the perception of taste in people. He goes on to explain how many franchises and companies, like McDonalds, are…

Eric Schlosser’s novel Fast Food Nation was published on January 17, 2001 (a second edition was later published in 2002) in New York, USA. The novel has 252 pages and continues to page 383 to provide the reader with an epilogue, photo credits, notes, bibliography, acknowledgements, and an index. The novel follows the fast food epidemic from its beginning in the 1950s to its current and future impact on America and the rest of the world. The first section of the novel, “The American Way”,…

The Credibility of Eric Schlosser’s Ethos Ethos is the credibility or ethical appeal that involves persuasion by the character of the author. Authors use ethos to become trustworthy in the eyes of his or her readers. In the afterword, Schlosser provides supplementary information after the initial publication of the book. In nonfiction expose, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser explores the dark side of the fast food industry. The additional information in…

really know what is in the meat that we eat? Eric Schlosser has written a book on the process of meat packing plants that begs the question (Fast Food Nation). His work bears a remarkable similarity to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle written almost one hundred years ago. Schlosser wrote his book from a different approach but contains shocking information of how our meat is still processed today. He is rightly known as the Upton Sinclair of today. Schlosser went on a meat packing tour and explored…

dangerous nuclear weapons are; Bombs that are capable of destroying an entire country that are being developed and modernized for destruction. In Eric Schlosser’s article, Today’s Nuclear Crisis, gives an overview about the world’s nuclear crisis. Unknown to the public, the development of the modernization of nuclear weapons is in full effect. Schlosser argues that nuclear landscaping is a worldwide issue, and it is very dangerous that it is being kept from the eye of the public. The article…

In theory as years went by things would’ve changed. Eric Schlosser disproves that theory with his book titled Fast Food Nation (2001). About a hundred years after the mistreatment in the Gilded Age occurred Fast Food Nation describes the same if not worse conditions in food industries. Meat-packing factories being the worst of all. In chapter 8, Schlosser uses rhetorical strategies to unveil the dark side of meat-packing factories. Schlosser…