Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Book Review: not what you expect.
Summary: 5 Stars
When you pick up the book your expecting to read about how fast food makes you obese and is bad for you, but truly the book is about how fast food came to be and how the corporations work. Its really a good view into the mindset of fast food chains. How they attract consumers and how they make their food. It was all so interesting and i enjoyed reading it :) It leaves the option wether to eat more deep friend frozen food ever again up to you.Book Review: the Real Truth about your fast food
Summary: 1 Stars
The book that I decided to read was fast food nation it was actual a surprise to read all of the real and true fact of how they really do the business. The author of the book of the book Eric Schlossor had very much knowledge of the real World. He was trying to say out loud and proud that, People in these Fast Food Company's are really just scalding you guys and if they're realizing that you are spending most of your money really on food. And even worse the food is not even good for you and the major companies cause a huge gap between the rich and the poor.
Also in the early days of America there was a period was the whole thing started and it told how they got started some individuals really did play the game. But once you get famous and big and get in trouble you have to pay up, the government just let them some times get of. And the people of America did not really like that too much but even through all this they still started paying and paying didn't bother them. Obesity was causing a major health issue in the country and Fast food places easily luior the customers but in all every body get's what they want.
Book Review: the beginning de-omnivorization for me~Recommended~
Summary: 5 Stars
Perfectly disturbing only because its true! I rate it high, but like a book on the holocost, its hard to say I LIKED IT. I am definitely Recommending it though. A shocker and a sad eye opener. See also Morgan Spurlock's "Don't Eat This Book, Fast Food and the Supersizing of America."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.