Category: Fast Food Nation

Food serves as a common language that links us all in a world where varied cultures coexist and exquisite flavors dance on our taste senses. Food essays transport you to the core of human subsistence and culture. Cuisine has the ability to link individuals, elicit memories, and represent the character of varied nations.  These essays…

The book discussed in this review is Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal written by Eric Schlosser. The book was published on January 17, 2001, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), a publishing company that specializes in publishing instructional materials such as textbooks, based in Boston, Massachusetts. The copy being reviewed here…

Have you ever wondered how the meats in the meatpacking industry really are? How the animals are really being treated? What its like to work long draining hours slaughtering animals to feed the American society? Next time you decide to eat that Big Mac think of whats really going into your body. Eric Schlosser wrote…

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, as stated on the cover of the book, is described in Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. While reading and analyzing the text, many themes are seen. Themes that include work and the good life as well as diet, nutrition, and food safety. The themes suggested in the…

By 2001, the United States held the record for the highest rates of obesity in the world. Studies show that obesity has gradually increased because of the mass consumption of fast food products. The people of the US are known to have a great passion for fast-food ***. Fast Food Nation depicts the horrors and…

In Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser is segmented into two main sections taking the reader on a wonderful journey into the world of fast food, while focusing on empowering the individual to change their ways on how to eat healthier food than just fast food. The author…

Everyone knows that fast food is unhealthy but Eric Schlosser has a strong hatred toward fast food. He hates fast food with all of his heart. He sees it as poison. He thinks fast food is evil. There is even proof showing his hatred towards fast food. Eric Schlosser is an American journalist who is…

A person can tell much about a society by what and how it eats. In Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, it covers the impacts that fast food joints have had in America and other nations as well. After reading one might realize how much harm fast food has been to society. Schlosser highlights the changes…