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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is a book that takes on the massive fast food industry from a variety of perspectives that are all convincing and valid. He attacks the unhealthiness of the food that fast food businesses serve, the way they treat their workforce (providing little or no training that can be applied to any other job) and their savage tactics against local burger joints, not to mention the environment. ... The fast food industry has been getting richer and richer at the expense of our health, our tax dollars and our children’s futures ever since its glorified beginnings in the car culture of Southern California. ... A meal of a burger, fries and a coke contains enough calories for an entire day’s worth of food and the excess fat we consume is showing up quite clearly in the country’s rapidly expanding waistline. ... This is a horrible price that we all have to pay but it certainly doesn’t show up on the expense list of the fast food industry. As long as fast food companies have no obligation to serve food that is good for the human body and not a direct health risk there is no reason for them to improve the quality of their product because they are currently thriving.
Approximate Word count = 1032
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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