The American Nation Has Been Shaped And Changed By Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser discusses how the American nation has been shaped and changed by fast food. The author takes something that is so American, fast food, and portrays to the reader the impact it has really had on American life and its culture. The author talks to multiple people who feel the negative impacts of the fast food industry and then goes more in depth about it. He relates life today to different time periods, such as the 1920s, great depression, and the industrial revolution. This book shows the read that in fact, history does repeat itself.
Carl Karcher, Carl’s Jr. founder, is introduced for the purpose to present the idea of fast food’s impact in a positive way. When talking to Karcher about how fast food has changed the landscape Schlosser writes, “I looked out the window and asked how he felt driving through Anaheim today… ‘Well, to be frank about it,’ he said, ‘I couldn’t be happier’” (28). Anaheim was once a small orange growing town, but because of the fast food industry that has changed. While reading about Anaheim’s changing the mood of the reader is disgusted and almost feels sympathetic for Karcher until he mentions this statement about “couldn’t be

ConGra took over the meat industry before the supreme court put forth antitrust laws on meat packing. Meat packers are upset for multiple reasons. One example, due to ConGra what use to be a middle class paying job is now low paying, unskilled employment. Meat packing has become dangerous, women are sexually harassed, in order to clean the work place they must use chlorine at high temperatures causing sickness, and high rates of injury in the slaughterhouse has made workers comp harder to receive. This minor conflict depicts the gruel part of food industries which is the whole point of the book, to show the reader that fast food is not all happy meals and