Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
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Book Reviews of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Book Review: An in depth look into the fast food industry
Summary: 5 Stars
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal was a pretty interesting and shocking book to read exposing many things like how the fast food industry as well as meat packing companies influence government laws and expose workers to unsafe and dangerous working conditions.
It is similar in some ways to Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle.
The book takes an in depth look into the fast food industry and even the history of fast food itself with several pages perhaps dozens devoted to telling the story of the McDonald's Bros and the man who bought McDonald's from them Ray Kroc with many interesting tidbits and rich subject matter that makes it a real page turner.
Author Eric Schlosser took his time and did a great job researching and investigating the pros and cons, ups and downs of the fast food industry and it's profound effects on society, culture, history, politics, goverment, laws, health care, and the workforce among other topics and subjects the author tackles in the book.
The fast food industry affects us all.
I highly recommend buying this book via Amazon.com and give it 5 out of 5 stars for an interesting, shocking and informative look and investigation into the fast food
industry.
Book Review: thorough review of our commercial food chain in the US
Summary: 5 Stars
Eric Schlosser performs a great service with his well composed description of the industrial food system that feeds most Americans.
Schlosser starts with a history of the founding of many of the famous fast food chains in the U.S.
Carl Karcher (Carl's Jr.), Richard and Maurice McDonald (McDonald's), Dave Thomas (Wendy's), and Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken)all have remarkable tales of hard work and enterprise in the founding of their restaurants.
Schlosser then goes on to describe the working conditions for the modern employees of these restaurants and how the major fast-food chains prey on the uneducated workforce as a source of disposible cheap labor.
The author also covers the conditions under which the cattle are raised to provide beef for this vast agro-industrial complex. He also outlines dangers of modern industrial beef - antibiotics, toxic bacteria, high fat content, etc.
Continuing in his inquiry into our food chain, Schlosser covers the working conditions of slaughterhouse and meatpacking workers.
Throughout the book, the facts are well presented and well referenced. The endnotes and index are both thorough and useful. On the whole, I enjoyed the book and learned much.
Book Review: A shocking look at how fast food has impacted our culture and nation
Summary: 5 Stars
It's unnerving how a few mega billion dollar corporations can control the food supply in this country. I was shocked by the dehumanizing conditions in the slaughter houses and the negative impact they have on the environment.
I can tell that the author has never experienced the working end of a grill spatula by how clueless he is to the business end of the industry, the people who are in the trenches. What manager has read I'm OK you're OK a book written in the 70's, please. Managers "stroke" their employees because of the age old adage, ya' catch more flies with sugar than vinegar. He's nailed the franchisees right on the head as far as never trusting the people who work for you.
As far as the McLibel case goes, they had a good point with the marketing of fast food directed at kids, a whole generation has grown up who think the only side dish is fries. The people who brought the case against Mickey D's were way too whiney, I'm sure they wouldn't last a minute over a hot grill during lunch rush, what qualiifies to talk about the working conditions in fast food resturants.
A must read for the poor bastards, like myself, who are in the industry and people who really are concerned about what they eat.
Book Review: One Fast Food National Under God ! ?
Summary: 5 Stars
The author offers reader a book behind the fast food industry which mushrooms around the county with their joints which the majority of working class rely on for their quick meals.
His research on the growers, suppliers, processors, laborers, politics and health issue behind the smiling teenager order takers leads reader to the composition of the hamburger in blood, tears and sweat from thousands of cattle, handled by the chain of workers before going to your mouth. It also makes you wonder who is eating the steaks and leaving the "residue of fats, noses, ears, trims" grounded into a mixture enhanced with artificial favor - a virtue"100% beef".
Does fast food industry cost you an arm and a leg? By eating the cheap fast food, we may pay a dear price for healthcare later!
This book illustrates the Tao of food: good and bad, healthy and junk, natural and artificial, slow and fast, traditional and modern, real and illusion.
Who program the population in acting "the allegiance to the flag of fast food industry, one fast food nation under God with franchises around 50 states in offering cheap hamburgers and freedom fries for all"?
Book Review: Well-researched eye-opener
Summary: 5 Stars
What got me interested in this book was of course, the cover. I was a "Mickey D's" kid back in the 80s and this book addresses just that. All that I am now was explained in this book and it really opened my eyes to the atrocities that happen in the factories that supply our food in America. From illegal immigrants bringing disease into the slaughterhouses, to the diseases the slaughterhouses themselves cause, this book outlines every disgusting process that is practiced to this day. Because of this, I have learned to ditch fast food altogether, not just because I was appalled at where these corporations get our food from, but because I could see that our entire country is dependent on these corporations and unnecessarily so. I think this book should be recommended reading at the high school level, as the author talks about how fast food preys upon teenagers not only because the food is cheap but because fast food jobs are always available to the young and especially the uneducated. This book will change your opinion, and if not that, will definitely make you think twice about our food sources and how the United States of America is currently operating.