Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal

Pros: Good Research
Cons: Too condemning of the fast food business; Resorts too often to government solutions

What do you think of the fast- food industry?

Do you like the convenience that fast- food restaurants provide? Do you feel that fast- food gives you a good value for your money? Do you admire the competitive spirit of fast- food? Or, do you...

Pros: Very informative book, interesting read. Thought provoking (and how!).
Cons: Nothing. Every consumer owes it to themselves to read this book.

As a person who has recently decided to change their eating and lifestyle habits to lose some weight (20 pounds lost since mid February, giddy), one of the first things that I cut out of my diet was fast food. I can honestly say that I haven’t had a...

Pros: In-depth investigation of the fast food industry
Cons: Can be very graphic, but is that bad?

Coming back from Spokane, Washington this summer, I needed a book to read on the plane. The magazines seemed a waste of $4 and would provide little long-term reading material for the money. This is the book the flight attendant noticed and wanted to...

Pros: A fascinating read that reveals the true evils of the fast food industry
Cons: Unfortunately the food still tastes good -- I can't stop eating it!

WHAT'S WRONG WITH FAST FOOD?

This book is about far more than most people assume. The hardcover's subtitle, "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" instantly conjures up images of worms in beef patties and teenage kitchen staff...

Pros: Accurate research
Cons: Sensational

I took about 2 months to read Fast Food Nation. The information in it is very disturbing and needs time to settle. I’m positive the author wanted it that way. Fast Food Nation begins by discussing the origins of fast food. The McDonald brothers and ...

Pros: extremely informative, well written, and very well covered topic.
Cons: Will make you think twice about eating anything fast food.

Sometimes I think that I should never have read this book, as there is a lot of bliss in simple ignorance. If I would never have known the facts about the fast food industry, I never would have cared about it. However, the facts that are presented in ...

Pros: Well written expose on the fast food industry
Cons: Only scratches teh surface of how reader can change things

Eric Schlosser follows in the well studied and oft quoted footsteps of Upton Sinclair and his groundbreaking exposure of the horrors of the meat packing industry in The Jungle nearly 100 years ago. He deconstructs the fast food industry and culture while...

Pros: generally informative, lots of behind the scenes info on the biz, history of ff
Cons: marginally related topics, apparent socialist bent of author, complains but doesn't offer solutions

I have had this book on "hold" at my library for months, and it finally became available the other day. I was eager to read a book that would expose what I knew had to be the obvious abuses in the fast food industry. While the author does include a lot...

Pros: Well-researched facts
Cons: Everything else

(Note to WSU administrators: this review has been submitted online after I handed this in my History class, so let's not jump on any plagarism charges.) The United States is in trouble. In the past 20 years, the amount of overweight ...

Pros: Brilliant descripton of "natural flavor" plants, poor conditions in fast-food "restaurants", and so on. Brilliant.
Cons: Slight left-leaning bent, but that's about it.

I already knew a lot about the low wages of fast-food joints and the process that goes on in slaughterhouses before I bought a copy of Fast Food Nation. Since I read it full, I haven't touched a single fast-food joint. I still eat meat, though- at home. ...

Pros: Schlosser follows in Upton Sinclair's footsteps with this modern update to "The Jungle"
Cons: succeeds most with anecdotes, though the statistics he quotes are powerful

Fast food nation is not a book about the fast food industry. It's not even a book about food. It's rather a mirror of American society and how the industrial revolution has naturally progressed and evolved to encompass all aspects of our politics,...

Pros: Insightful; exposes hidden truth; can't put the book down
Cons: None

I could not put this book down. I have sworn off fast food for good now, for a number of reasons. One big reason was that I got food poisoning from Burger King. That made me really start thinking about what I was eating.

One of the previous...

Pros: Deep and detailed info on the impact of fast food on us
Cons: N/A

You are not the only one who has read some of Eric Schlosser's articles in Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. I read his article on fast food in Rolling Stone a few months ago. It was a long article, the kind of work that the author usually puts...

Pros: Great research and documentation.
Cons: Went off on a couple of slight tangents

The "fast-food" industry always has struck me as one of the most interesting parts of the business culture -- not necessarily good all the time, but interesting. Consider it is a business that started only in the 1950's, and has grown to be a leading...

Pros: Eric Schlosser reveals how horrible fast food can be and shows indepth research
Cons: It takes away your appetite!

For my sophomore honors english term paper I decided to write about veganism. My honors history teachers recommeded I read Fast Food Nation to gain knowledge about the food I had been comsuming my entire life and what actually is going on. I never...