 Fast
Food Nation
by
Eric Schlosser
On any given day, one out of four
Americans opts for a quick and cheap
meal at a fast-food restaurant, without
giving either its speed or its
thriftiness a second thought. Fast food
is so ubiquitous that it now seems as
American, and harmless, as apple pie.
But the industry's drive for
consolidation, homogenization, and speed
has radically transformed America's
diet, landscape, economy, and workforce,
often in insidiously destructive ways.
Eric Schlosser, an award-winning
journalist, opens his ambitious and
ultimately devastating exposé with an
introduction to the iconoclasts and high
school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders
and the McDonald brothers, who first
applied the principles of a factory
assembly line to a commercial kitchen.
Quickly, however, he moves behind the
counter with the overworked and
underpaid teenage workers, onto the
factory farms where the potatoes and
beef are grown, and into the
slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking
corporations. Schlosser wants you to
know why those French fries taste so
good (with a visit to the world's
largest flavor company) and "what really
lurks between those sesame-seed buns."
Eater beware: forget your concerns about
cholesterol, there is--literally--feces
in your meat.
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 Diet
for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary
Edition)
by Frances Moore Lappe
Here again is the extraordinary
bestselling book that taught America the
social and personal significance of a
new way of eating-- one that remains a
complete guide for eating well in the
90s. Featuring: simple rules for a
healthy diet; a streamlined, easy-to-use
format; delicious food combinations of
protein-rich meals without meat;
hundreds of wonderful recipes, and much
more.
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