Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.
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.
A journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food production.
Read the inside stories related to the fast food revolution, and its downfall Translated by Nguyen Phuong Dung & Nguyen Thu Hien. In Vietnamese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Fast Food Nation
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This informative volume explores Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation through the lens of the food industry.
... of the Department of Fiscal Affairs at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is an influential scholar in the field. ... Fraser Institute, 1997), edited by Owen Lippert and Michael Walker, is a revealing collection of essays.
Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many different routes by which we may take back control of our food.
The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. writing looks beneath the surface of American ...
The whole experience is transitory and soon forgotten. I've written this book out of a belief that people should know what lies behind the shiny, happy surface of every fast food transaction.