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    year, the fast food industry harms countless people in many ways, especially those involving consumption, salary, and production. Sadly, in America today, adults and children alike often view fast food as a necessity, yet it causes damage that affects the nation’s citizens and economy. Not only do these unhealthy consumptions play a part in the rising obesity rate in the country, but it also brings about fatal infection that not many people know about. Additionally, the fast food industry holds responsibility for many employees in America who receive low pay, giving workers as little training as possible in order to pay them the least amount they can. Meanwhile, before the disease infested food finds its way to the low paying fast food establishments, factories put unqualified workers to work in production lines to prepare it using dangerous equipment. Essentially, the fast food industry involves nothing but low wages, disease filled take-out bags, and man-killing factories. Entry 1: In Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, he highly emphasizes the effects poor wages in the fast food business has on employees. The average fast food employee earns minimum wage, and rarely gets the opportunity to work a sufficient hours every week. As a result, many fast food employees around the world can barely…

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    Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation is a tell all about the United State’s fascination and consumption of fast food, he starts the book off with the stories about how places like McDonald’s and Carl’s Jr. were created. After, he makes progression to the expansion of McDonald 's, and compares it to the expansion of Disney, starting off small but making a huge impact in the world over the years. Proceeding the company’s expansions he starts to talk of preparation from frozen…

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    In Fast Food Nation, the author, Eric Schlosser, creates an argument against the fast food business, how it affects people’s health or lives, its practices, and specifically exploiting how these businesses, blinded by income, overlook important issues. He details the business from its very beginnings, its evolution, and with an expansive afterword, describes what the business is like years after his book was published. Throughout his detailed descriptions and background, Schlosser uses several…

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    In the 2001 nonfiction book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser unmasks the reality behind fast food industries by pointing out some of the consequences such as the change it has caused to several cities, deathly illnesses, and the gap between the rich and the poor; his purpose is to convince people to make the right decisions on their own (276). In chapter nine, Schlosser illustrates how some of the deadly diseases such as E. coli 0157:H7, foodborne pathogens, microbes, and Salmonella are spread…

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    This paper is a review of Eric Schlosser’s book “Fast Food Nation”. The book is on how the fast food nation has overcome America and made wider Gap between social classes. The takeover of the fast food industry in the world has made it difficult for people to maintain their neighborhoods, healthy eating, and a more productive lifestyle. The reviewer read in the book how fast food companies want to stop targeting turn around workers. The industry now wants to have people work in the company…

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    repercussions. In the book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, the author Eric Schlosser provides a chilling wake-up call through his forceful yet persuasive assault on America's fast food culture by unveiling the negative side effects of globalization and the exploitations that take place during and after an American dream becomes more than just a dream. The history of fast food begins like every other success story…

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    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…

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    The book “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal” is written by Eric Schlosser. Eric Schlosser was born on August 17, 1959 and was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. His education background consists of Princeton University, Oriel College and University of Oxford. This book grabbed my attention and was able to inform me about the cruel and unknown world of the fast-food industry. This book greatly relates to my own experience, I have seen most of this in…

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    Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation, used techniques of persuasion through ethos, pathos, and logos and they help him become credible when it comes to uncovering the dark sides of the fast food industry. Schlosser’s audience are the people who eat at fast food establishments and who buy their products without knowing what it takes to serve it. By analyzing the book we can see how the author’s use of rhetoric analysis supports his argument. It not only benefited his purpose, but it…

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    “Fast Food Nation” was written by Eric Schlosser in 2001. Schlossers’ purpose in writing this book was to educate people on fast food and how fast food has taken over our lives essentially. Schlosser shows us that big chain corporations such as McDonald’s run every day by employees who are under paid and work in unsanitary and sometimes in a dangerous environment. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that eating fast food can lead to obesity. It is very unhealthy to eat this type of…

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