Rather, it is a combination memoir and extension of Atlantic columnist Kendi’s towering Stamped From the Beginning (2016) that leads readers through a taxonomy of racist thought to anti-racist action. Unlike the restaurants and food preparatory processes discussed, the statistics and case studies of Fast Food Nation are palatable. I’ve always heard about this book and finally I read it and wow! (Let me tell you that I played football in college, and I've always had a few extra pounds on me: 5'10" 240lbs. The fast food industry is just as we english scholars like to say "la ist normlish". Good voice to listed to and easy to follow along, the speed of the reading can be adjusted. The US is a place I would have be become vegetarian if I even visited, let alone spent any stretch of time in. Please read this book. It is a serious piece of investigative journalism into an … Книга, която описва развитието на индустрията на бързата закуска в САЩ. If you do you’ll probably find yourself saying, “Check please!” way before you’re full. And I like the fact my money is now going to local businesses. It's sad. Oh it's just so good, you'll want to slash your wrists. Paperback - 383 pages - 978-0-06-083858-4, Peanut Press/Palm Reader - 978-0-14-188606-0, Hardcover - 624 pages - 978-0-7838-9502-4, Paperback - 520 pages - 978-0-06-183868-2, Paperback - 384 pages - 978-0-14-100687-1, Prebound-Other - 363 pages - 978-1-4176-8717-6, Paperback - 383 pages - 978-0-06-116139-1, Compact Disc - 8 pages - 978-0-7393-1250-6, Paperback - 400 pages - 978-0-14-103531-4, Open Ebook - 368 pages - 978-0-547-51824-4, FAST FOOD NATION: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food, REEFER MADNESS: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. Categories: Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It has changed my perspective on the food industry and what I eat majorly. Very informative. Sold by Babs Books and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. She was horrified with my response. You'll probably feel the urge to take a shower a lot of the times since there's quite a few segments that are pretty disg. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. “As disturbing as it is irresistible . The meatpacking industry comes off looking very malicious, but surprisingly Schlosser is somewhat light on his criticism fast food chains. POLITICS I particularly mean the chapter that begins with the little boy who dies after eating at a fast food restaurant. 4). Please try your request again later. A number of critics have compared his work to that of Upton Sinclair. This book is a detailed investigation into the fast food industry in the USA. Inspired by Eric Schlosser's best-selling expose of the American fast food industry, this book tells a thought-provoking story about a fictionary chain of US burger restaurants.". "Los Angeles Times" In 2001, "Fast Food Nation" was published to critical acclaim and became an international bestseller. "Schlosser is a serious and diligent reporter..." "[Fast Food Nation] is a fine piece of muckraking, alarming without beling alarmist." I grew up in Greeley, CO. Yes. channeling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Schlosser shows how the fast food industry conquered both appetite and landscape.”—The New Yorker Eric Schlosser is a contributing editor for the Atlantic and the author of Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness, and Chew on This (with Charles Wilson). Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. After devoting most of the book to talking, Oluo finishes with a chapter on action and its urgency. Четох я, защото има и филм по нея и я превъзнасят като монументално журналистическо разкритие на тайните на големите fast food корпорации. "Fast Food Nation" points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours. That's what I said after reading this book. —San Jose Mercury News "'Fast Food Nation' should be another wake-up call, a super-size serving of common sense...." —Atlanta Journal Constitution "Part cultural history, part investigative journalism and part polemic...intelligent and highly readable critique...." —Time Out New York "Fast Food Nation is the kind of book that you hope young people read because it demonstrates far better than any social studies class the need for government regulation, the unchecked power of multinational corporations and the importance of our everyday decisions." It had so much gloom and doom and I really lost interest. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2012. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2015. Well written and really takes you in depth in how our food is grown, raised, prepared and those who are doing it for us. Of all the books that made me physically ill to read and filled me with a sense of utter and complete hopelessness, exacerbating my cynicism, despair, and suicidal tendencies, this was among the very best. This book was so full of facinating information that as soon as I finished it I felt I needed to re-read it again __ I couldn't take it all in in one hit. Don’t tell your vegetarian friends.) A clear and candid contribution to an essential conversation. During my research for the book, I ate an enormous amount of fast food. vital info to have in the back of your mind, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2015. this is my second copy; have lent out the last one to someone and forgotten who! It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. I found this non fiction book to be very interesting. Although this is from 2001, I feel many of the revelations are still true, unfortunately. The author has a very accurate perspective of how Americans are educating their children and making fast food a day-to-day routine. When I went to an In-N-Out and the clerk handed me my cup, I immediately flipped it over and saw the John 3:16 and then showed my two friends. RELEASE DATE: Aug. 13, 2019. Yes. There was this flash of memory about this book as I stood in line to buy a pizza of late. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Magazine Subscribers (How to Find Your Reader Number). Please try again. Pressurized air within the complex prevents contamination by radioactive fallout and biological weapons. See all 7 questions about Fast Food Nation…, Balancing Organic and Non-Organic Products. Then the gruesome details which he seems to explain in a mostly non-bias way , one gets the feel he is not trying to sell vegetarianism - more to the point of the unsanitary conditions of the factories and the diseases of the food. . Overall a good book, but my reason for 3 star is simple. The meatpacking industry comes off looking very malicious, but surprisingly Schlosser is somewhat light on his criticism fast food chains. . And then, when yo. Sorry, that pun was intended. —Hartford Courant, "New York Times" Bestseller Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . It shows the measly local fast food restaurants in California and how they became monstrous billionaire companies; however, In 383 pages Eric Schlosser did what businessmen have been struggling to bring to the light of day about the fast food market. Just the description of how meat is produced in slaughterhouses was enough to make me quiver and question our entire 'food system'. 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Last actual page is 356. He lives in Austin. Gruesome. I am disappointed that while reading along, there are several sections of the book that are missing from the audio. Schlosser builds up a load of pathos to prove his point that fast food is so awful it kills children. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”, “The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. —USA Today "Fast Food Nation presents these sometimes startling discoveries in a manner that manages to be both careful and fast-paced. In this non-fiction novel one would expect that Schlosser would have spent the 383 pages talking about why McDonalds and other fast-food companies are generating high percentages of obesity but most are wrong; Schlosser surprisingly chooses to talk about the evil, greed and power involved in the industry. Tip for the future: Don’t read about the meat-packing industry and how weak government regulations of them are, while dining at an all-you-can-eat Chinese restaurant or else, when you get to, say, the part about how a fast-food hamburger contains meat not only from one cow but thousands—or how the government can’t require meat companies to recall meat even when it is clearly tained. Throughout the book, Oluo responds to questions that she has often been asked, and others that she wishes were asked, about racism “in our workplace, our government, our homes, and ourselves.” “Is it really about race?” she is asked by whites who insist that class is a greater source of oppression. Those sins and more are detailed in this book which I recommend everyone read. Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic. Retrieve credentials. That food, I heard such great things about this book, but I have to say that I really had a hard time digesting it. I had a cheeseburger. “Internalized racism,” he writes, “is the real Black on Black Crime.” Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth, all the way to the intersectional constructs of gender racism and queer racism (the only section of the book that feels rushed).
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