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Book: Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation

Tell me what you eat , and I shall tell you what you are ' - Brillat-Savarin

Investigative journalist and author Eric Schlosser gives a history of the fast food industry and franchises and parallels how it has evolved beside the automobile . The local and global influences of the fast food industry are examined with how the fast food industry infiltrates just about every part of our American life including how fast foods and junk foods are marketed in our public schools

In the movie , we see exploited immigrant labor

dominating the employee market in the meat packing industry . Schlosser shows the viewers how these fast foods are carefully designed and chemically enhanced so we as fast food consumers are ignorant of what we are putting into our bodies when we eat fast food

Schlosser even shows the viewers how even sponsored textbooks contain material that is in favor of the sponsors . We see the partnership between McDonald 's and Disney and how they infuse emotions into what is usually empty calories devoid of nutrition

Although I have learned many new things from reading the book , Fast Food Nation , it also shows us all the importance of using self-discipline , and eating for the sole sake of taking in nutrition for our bodies to operate at their highest levels . Although the book shows us that we never know what fast food industries are doing to this food it pronounces the fact for each of us that this isn 't what...

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