What makes meat so good that drives us to want to eat them so badly? The answer is certainly hidden behind the cheap manufacturing slaughterhouses. In Eric Schlosser’s book “ Fast Food Nation” talks about the impact of fast food nation on the American society today. How it’s came to be, the background and history of fast food. As fast food slowly develop in our country, which also comes with greater hidden hazards. Meatpacking has always been the issue when it comes across to the most dangerous job
This expansion has sacrificed the uniqueness and tranquility of previously untouched land and has transformed them into a carbon copy of every other town in America. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser deals primarily with the changing effects of the fast food industry to American life. He connects this change to the revolutionary changes that have affected Colorado Springs in recent years (7). The case of Colorado Springs is a prime example of the grievance of
In Eric Schlosser’s thought provoking book work, Fast Food Nation, the underlying truths of one of the most lucrative fields of the world unfold. Schlosser ingeniously journeys through the world of fast foods, noting the emergence of the “nation”, presenting background information on the founding of the idea of fast food services, more specifically focusing in on the blueprint set by worldwide franchises, while vividly depicting the production of fast foods, explicitly detailing the inward operation
HIST 173 12 December 2014 Fast Food Nation: Corporate Control Over US Food Industry In Eric Schlosser’s 2001 nonfiction book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Schlosser shares intimate and disturbing information regarding the truth about the American fast food industry. Fast Food Nation relays the message that America’s fast food chains are corrupt and malevolent corporations whose focus is on making profit more than serving nutritious and quality food to consumers. These corporations
As a high school history teacher at Triton Regional high school, I take great pride in exposing the youth of America to the “darker” side of American history. I do not pursue this task to simply get them depressed about their world. I do this to expose them to reality. If the character Holden Caulfield from J. D. Salinger’s The Cather in the Rye wanted to catch the youth from their fall from innocence, then I want to do the opposite. I want to challenge them with reality. For example, it is