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Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World

by Eric Schlosser
RM29.40 MYR Now RM14.51 MYR Save 51%
Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World - Thryft
Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World - Thryft

Exposé of fast food's dark, pervasive impact.

If you're someone who breezes through drive-thrus without a second thought, "Fast Food Nation" will stop you in your tracks. It's not just a deep dive into what you're eating, but a revelation of how the fast food industry has reshaped society, labor, and health in profound and unsettling ways. Imagine uncovering the secrets behind your cheeseburger—it's thought-provoking, it's urgent, and it might just change how you see your next meal.

  • Puddly Award for Nonfiction (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World

by Eric Schlosser
RM29.40 MYR Now RM14.51 MYR Save 51%
ISBN: 9780713996029
Authors: Eric Schlosser
Publisher: Allen Lane The Penguin Press
Date of Publication: 2001-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Business, History, Food & Drink, Sociology, Politics, Science
Related Topics: History, Social Issues, Health, Sociology, Food and Drink, Politics, Food
Goodreads rating: 3.75
(rated by 205565 readers)

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Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser's disturbing and timely exploration of one of the world's most controversial industries, has become a massive bestseller in America and rightly deserves to be so this side of the pond. On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its cheapness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems harmless. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenisation and speediness has radically transformed the West's diet, landscape, economy and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways.Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. However, he rapidly moves behind the counter to the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavour company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns". Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--faeces in your meat. Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of regulation. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting and unsanitary practices that introduced E.coli and other pathogens into restaurants, schools and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young", insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behaviour", he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed
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Exposé of fast food's dark, pervasive impact.

If you're someone who breezes through drive-thrus without a second thought, "Fast Food Nation" will stop you in your tracks. It's not just a deep dive into what you're eating, but a revelation of how the fast food industry has reshaped society, labor, and health in profound and unsettling ways. Imagine uncovering the secrets behind your cheeseburger—it's thought-provoking, it's urgent, and it might just change how you see your next meal.

  • Puddly Award for Nonfiction (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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