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The novel Fast Food Nation written by Eric Schlosser explains the monstrosity behind fast food and the secrets it holds. Schlossar talks about widely known fast food chains. He explains the secrets behind McDonald’s , Burger King, and other fast food restaurants you might eat on a regular basis. Fast Food Nation contains a detailed description of how these restaurants got started and what is inside those pre-heated hamburger, burrito, and french fries you are holding in your hand. Fast Food Nation is a well written (a bit boring) detailed book that may make you avoid fast food for a while. Fast food had been a part of our economy since 1919, some may even argue fast food created our economy. Without fast food we might not have restaurants we enjoy today. McDonald’s being the first fast food restaurant ever created, was originally a drive thru filled with teenage boys and young men. Later on McDonald’s decided to change their role and become a family oriented dine in restaurant. Carl’s Jr. (created in 1941) was invented by a man by the name of Carl Karcher and his wife Margaret, (originally a hot dog cart) expanded till it grew to become …show more content…

Schlosser shows us the secret between packaging plants, meat houses, and fast food restaurants. The meat in the burger you are holding right now was mass produced in factories and in disgusting environments. They also mistreat the animals in these plants as well. Brutality is shown as well as cruelty to animals. These factories are unsafe and put mostly put every living thing inside at danger. Workers have lost limbs, fingers, and have even died making the food everyone at your local McDonald’s are currently eating. One man has even fallen into a machine and was turned into a tub of lard. Safety did increase drastically over these couple of years but that doesn’t stop the fact that people still get injured or sickened by fast

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Chapter 7 of Fast Food Nation discussed the starting of meatpacking industry and its downfalls. At first, Iowa Beef Packers (IBP) used the same principle as McDonald’s principle to make fast foods. IBP hired unskilled workers just to do simple and repeated work all day. However, competition with other companies made IBP low wages and health insurance options. This caused slaughterhouses to move West to gain cheap labor and land.

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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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The argument Schlosser is making is that big companies like McDonalds are expanding every day also that the meat packing industries and slaughterhouses are unsafe working conditions for employees and they are treated unfairly. This essay will reflect Schlosser’s main argument and main points he made. Schlosser started off talking about how the fast business started and who all started it. In the book Schlosser talked about CARL N. KARCHER one of the fast food industry’s pioneers.” When Carl heard that a hot dog cart was for sale he decided to buy it — on Florence Avenue across from the Goodyear factory” Schlosser .

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The book provided more distressing news of terrible practices in this industry taught to the workers so that more meat can be distributed for profit. “He wrote that workers would process dead, injured, and diseased animals after regular hours when no meat inspectors were around” (Constitutional Rights Foundation). The industry provides more meat for their customers purely for profit. This causes the industry to be influenced to sell its meat, no matter the condition it is in. The disgusting context of the conditions America’s meat was put through was brought to light, thanks to “The Jungle” and the customers of these businesses were

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