In Fast Food Nation, Eric Scholosser shows the beginnings of fast food chains and their transformation from small, family run businesses into huge, multinational corporations. The companies, he says, have become a "revolutionary force in American life." Throughout the book, Scholosser details the darker affairs the fast food industry have been involved in. The fast food companies have marketed to children to manufacture them into consumers for life. The workers for fast food restaurants are maltreated, and the workers in the meatpacking industry (which developed to support fast food companies) are even more so. Small-time farms have been put out of business by factory farming, with the suicide rate among farmers and ranchers being three times the national average.
This is definitely an important book for everyone, especially Americans, to read. The facts about the fast food and meatpacking industries cannot be ignored. While some readers may not like the conclusions Scholosser comes to, they must know the facts.
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