Fast Food Nation

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Fast Food Nation

The book Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side of the All-American Meal examines the global and local influence of the fast food industry in the United States , and written by an investigative and analytical journalist Eric Schlosser in 2001 . Rolling Stone first serialized it in 1999 and the book consequently drawn various comparative context with the novel The Jungle ' by Upton Sinclair . Schlosser also worked for the Atlantic Monthly as a correspondent , and consequently received several honors in the

field of journalism such as the National Magazine Award for writing an investigative article regarding marijuana and the war against drugs

The Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side of the All- American Meal ' is his first ever book . The book started with a vignette with respect to a delivery of pizza to the Cheyenne Mountain , which is apparently an Air Force base of the United States . He relatively described the broad defense system and different high-technology capabilities of the base with a speculation that if the worst happen , the whole base would be entombed on the mountain . Future anthropologists would eventually discover accidental wrappers of fast food being scattered among the hardware of the military . This would suggest , according to Schlosser would eventually give very significant clues regarding the nature of the American civilization

Figure 1 . Fast Food Nation

The book then continues with the of the eminent evolution of the fast food and how it consequently coincided with the introduction...