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Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation

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When I was picking a book to read and to find which on I wanted to write my review on I saw this book online and it seem like a good book. A book about fast food. Who doesn’t love fast food. I believe we all do even if we say we don’t but deep down we do. Some fast food even delivery to your house so you don’t have too. In Eric Schlosser book; Fast Food Nation he beings his account of the American fast food industry. Fast food is the dark side of all American meal, it is a thought provoking, researched based account of the rise of the fast food industry. Fast food is made for a low-cost, and rapidly prepared meals. Who doesn’t love that a fast meal you can take home. I don’t know about you but I do. When I was reading this book, it was an eye opener. Someone like me who like fast food isn’t healthy for us to have it every day. To have it every occasionally, it’s okay. When a consumer eats fast food, it fills the stomach with high fat, low-nutrition food and sodas if you get one. In a soda that you get it may have 8-10 teaspoons of sugar. So is fast food bad for you, yes, it is but is it okay to have it yeah. Another point that got stuck on my mine was when they hire their employees they are adults that are uneducated and teenagers with minimum of training in proper food handing and …show more content…

It may fill in gaps that people may have about the fast food restaurants or answer questions they may have. Eric carried out his purpose throughout is book. Eric wanted to make sure he got his point across to the reader. He also did a good job on how he explains certain parts of the book. When I picked this book, it reminded me a lot of the movie or documentary of Super-Size Me, when he would eat McDonalds every day for every meal. He would it the biggest size which was super-size. As I was reading the book it reminded me of

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After reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, the readers understand why Schlosser wrote the book. Schlosser uses certain diction, and rhetoric to get his point across. His point of view changes from the beginning of the book, to the end, but the readers are able to relate to his choice for doing so. He effectively gets his purpose across throughout the entire book, he effectively informs the reader about the well-being of the many people in the fast food industry, and he effectively makes it very clear to his readers how he feels a bout fast food, Schlosser wrote this book to inform his readers about the ins and outs of the fast food industry. He wanted the readers to understand what went on behind the counters of their local

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On January 17, 2001 Eric Schlosser, a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly and author of Reefer Madness, depicts “The Dark side of the All-American Meal” in his novel Fast Food Nation, one of TIME’s 100 best nonfiction books. In the novel, Schlosser employs many different rhetorical strategies throughout the chapters to inform and convince his audience of the scandalous nature of the fast food industry. Schlosser describes the unseen truths of industry in order to dissuade not only the American public, but all supporters of fast food. He writes to all members of society who eat fast food, so that he can alert them of what is happening beneath the surface of one of America’s most profitable and private industry’s. Chapter five is divided

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Did you know that more than 160,000 fast food restaurants feed more than 50 million americans every day! In the non fiction text, Mcjobs, by Eric Schlosser, it talks about the “dangers of fast food.” Eric Schlosser states that back in the 1900s there was not a single fast food restaurant in Martinsburg, but still, people somehow managed to eat and survive. Fast food restaurants serve very cheap food along with it being made very fast, but the food is processed and frozen, which can lead to a lot of diseases and disorders. Fast food restaurants might be very cheap and fast, but it is not healthy at all and it can be replaced with a lot of smaller healthier snacks.

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“Our goal is quality food above all else. From the potatoes that become World Famous Fries to the fresh produce in our salads and the 100% pure beef in our burgers, we’re committed to serving you the very best.” This quote was taken directly off the McDonald’s website, the company claims to present a food of high quality at every McDonald’s. In a country filled with more than 50,000 fast food chains and a world filled with more than 500,000, can each and every meal distributed by these chains be of the quality they claim? In the nonfiction novel Fast Food Nation, the author Eric Schlosser opens the doors to the kitchens of these large fast food franchises to shine a light on what really goes on.

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Schlosser argues America’s lives are solely based off of fast food. Throughout his writing he describes how common it is in our society in which fast food is ordered, sold, and consumed. Everywhere you go, every glimpse you take, every corner you pass, fast food is being sold everywhere. Schlosser describes throughout his text the commonality of fast food in restaurants, airports, schools, and large chained stores available nationwide, in which each compress the similarity of fast food. Not only does he include how common fast food is in an American’s life, but he describes how Americans will spend more of their money in their wallet on fast food than they would on other livelihood essentials.

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Informing its readers on some of the fast food employees schedule. The book also tells us about employment of those who are still in highschool working into the late hours of night and struggling to get their homework done. Eric Schlosser also gives us insight on how fast food workers prepare the food in the kitchen, describing almost every item on the menu as frozen, precooked, and dehydrated. All the workers have to do is “add water”. He then talks about turnovers in the fast food industry.

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“Fast food restaurants have us hooked on to their tasty food. You See a lot of people buying fast food because how good it tastes. Well let me tell you it is not good for your health. Why do fast food places lower their prices because they know people will buy it if it doesn’t cost that much and most people buy it cause that`s how much they can afford”. Fast food places is a way to not cook every week I feel bad for people when I go to McDonald’s and ask them, do you know what you’re eating in they say

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