Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Name: Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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ISBN: 9780395977897

ISBN-10: 0395977894

ISBN-13: 9780395977897

Edition: 2001

Authors: Eric Schlosser, Eric Schlosser

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Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/17/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.232

Eric Schlosser, a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, won a National Magazine Award for an article he wrote on strawberry picking for that magazine. His work has been nominated for several other National Magazine Awards and for the Loeb Award for business journalism.



Introduction



The American Way



The Founding Fathers



Your Trusted Friends



Behind the Counter



Success



Meat and Potatoes



Why the Fries Taste Good



On the Range



Cogs in the Great Machine



The Most Dangerous Job



What's in the Meat



Global Realization


Epilogue: Have It Your Way


Afterword: The Meaning of Mad Cow