Eric Schlosser

For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap and tasty. Kenner explores the topic from all viewpoints, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who has been urging for more severe standards since E-coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son. Challenges are to create…

Murder, aggravated assault, and robbery, what if Americans treated obesity just as seriously as these crimes? According to a 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination survey, ¨ More than one-third (35.7 percent) of adults are considered to be obese¨ (NIDDK). Compared to the ¨one in 18,690 chance of being robbed¨; If Americans would worry about being a victim of obesity as much as they do being robbed, obesity in America would decrease (Books of Odds). There are several factors that can…

Life-Threatening Obesogenic Foods Today’s generation may be the first to be buried before the parents. As a result of the young people’s unhealthy eating habits, America’s obesity rates continue to increase and the need for a change is indisputable. An immediate change in eating habits and physical lifestyles must be made before the obesity epidemic can no longer be reversed. The fast-food industry, though largely culpable, is not the only contributor to this issue. The government’s failure to…

The documentary Food Choices: How Our Diet Affects the Environment produced by Michal Siewierski and Kaiser Permanente, a non-for-profit health plan, while different non-fiction forms of communication that share a common mission of providing important information on the effects of the food we eat and how changing our diet can improve our lives. The documentary Food Choices advocates the benefits of eating a plant-based diet and begins by discrediting long believed myths about eating land animals…

Cannabis & Culture With origins dating back 10,000 years, the psychoactive Cannabis plant, or commonly known as marijuana, has swept the globe as one of the oldest agricultural plants. Stemming from Eastern Asia, using exportation of goods and exploration as a tool to travel the world, it has left roots scattered across every continent (excluding Antarctica). Its use has varied from helping to reach a state of euphoria, to being used in textiles, which has helped countries such as China and…

One Muckraker’s Societal Influence: The Movement of Federal Food Regulation Issued in the United States Upton Sinclair, once said due to public recognition of his 1904 novel, The Jungle “I aimed for the public's heart, and by accident I hit the stomach instead”. A socialist, and muckraker railed for public outcry of labor equity. He launched a consumer movement through the midst of a harsh stockyard strike from unfairly payed wage workers, socialist writer Upton Sinclair visited Chicago’s…

about his experience in reducing his impact on the environment. A couple of those blogs talk about how he’s reduced a big part of his food waste, and gone dumpster diving to feed hungry people. I read the book titled “Fast Food Nation” written by Eric Schlosser (2001). I thought this book would give me a better insight on how wasteful Americans are. However, I found that the book just gave me a better understanding of the development of fast food restaurants in America. While this was very…

Everyday there is millions of people getting addicted to junk food. There are people who do not have time to prepare their own meals or sometimes people that prefer to eat out on a single basic. Since fast food has spread all over the world the consumption has increased significantly. People 's lives are different in many aspects. There are people that take their diet very serious, dening to make fast food part of their life, while some accept the fact of fast food is cheap and convenient to…