Fast Food Nation

Everyone eats fast food whether it’s because they are busy, on the road, or like the food, but does anyone stop to consider what fast food industries have done to the community, the meatpacking companies, or the slaughter houses in which the food comes from. Majority of people believe these businesses moving into a town is a good concept because they bring jobs. Although it is true, Eric Schlosser takes on a different view in the book Fast Food Nation talking about how these businesses moving…

wrote the book titled Fast Food Nation with the purpose of trying to inform the readers about the dangers and some background knowledge of fast food while still performing this act in the form of ethos. Schlosser uses many anecdotes and statistics to prove why fast food is detrimental. Schlosser mentions how much family cooked meals have reduced as a result to the growth and popularity of fast food restaurants. Many Americans without realizing spend thousands of dollars on fast food, and…

rushed to order their favorite grill beef sandwich while I picked a crab and asparagus soup for the twenty month baby. Looking at them, all enjoy their food, I can’t help wondering if they have ever given any thought of where they food come from, how it was made, how the food preparation has impacted our life as a young generation living in a fast-moving society in such as big city like Chicago- where part of it used to…

Food is the staple of any society. Before the practice of agriculture a sustainable supply of food was hard to come by; as a result, people were subjected to a harsher way of life. The invention of agricultural practices, and the resulting sustainable food supply, revolutionized the way life could be lived. However, there is a cost as population increases so to does, demand and in the name of expediency shortcuts are taken, which can be hazardous to the average individual.1 Eric Schlosser,…

Fast food employees are deceived by the business just as much as the people who consume fast food. One out of every eight workers in the United States has by some point in time been employed by McDonald's alone. (p.4) With the increased intake of fast food, has come the increased intake of profit for franchise owners. This in turn allows them to hire more employees and add to the work force. A typical fast food employee is an adolescent who is under the age of twenty. He or she will lack full…

People might think of fast food as a benign convenience of modern times. The food is good, cheap, plentiful, easily accessible, filling, and the restaurants are clean. What could be wrong? Reading Eric Schlosser’s groundbreaking study Fast Food Nation, one learns that just about everything is. Schlosser uncovers a history of corruption, greed, and disregard for the welfare of workers and customers in franchises such as McDonald’s, Burger King, and Jack in the Box, to name a few. His study takes…

The article, “Fast-Food Nation: The True Cost of America’s Diet”, contained various bold statistics but one stood out the most of all of them. This was the statistic on page 3 of the article stating, “A survey of American schoolchildren found that ninety-six percent could identify Ronald McDonald. The only fictional character with a higher degree of recognition was Santa Claus. The impact of McDonald's on the nation's culture, economy and diet is hard to overstate. Its corporate symbol – the…

Yi-Chieh Wang ALS162.661 Reading Journal Entry 1 Reading Journal Entry 1 Fast, convenient, finger licking good - this is the image of American fast food, but behind the scenes of joy and delicacy, what shadows are hidden? When I studied in college, I had a part-time job at Subway for a long time. We all think that subway is health and low card food. Eating it can help you losing weight. But, if you know the environment was dirty in my working place, mice dug into the hole, cockroaches were…

where their food is consumed. Next, he presents the dangers that the American public are exposed to when consuming their products. Schlosser also claims the fast food industry is responsible for stopping government regulatory policies on the meat processing industry by using their political lobbyist. Lastly, the writer explains how greedy and uncaring the corporations are by exposing their advertisement policy towards kids so that they become loyal…

spotted. In The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) and Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser), there are aspects of civilization, cultural diffusion, and even innovative ideas. In all three of these ideas, there can be comparisons and contrasts between the two books, even though they were written a century apart. Civilization is defined as “the total culture and way of life of particular people, nations, regions, or periods.” Because The Jungle and Fast Food Nation were written a century apart, the reader…