Authors: Eric Schlosser
ISBN-13: 9780060838584, ISBN-10: 0060838582
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Eric Schlosser has been investigating the fast food industry for years. In 1998, his two-part article on the subject in Rolling Stone generated more mail than any other item the magazine had run in years. In addition to writing for Rolling Stone, Schlosser has contributed to The New Yorker and has been a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996. He won a National Magazine Award for "Reefer Madness" and "Marijuana and the Law" and has received a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Reporting. His work has been nominated for several other National Magazine Awards and for the Loeb Award for business journalism.
Journalist Schlosser argues that the fast food industry has triggered the growth of malls in America's landscape, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. He discusses facts about food production and preparation, the ingredients and taste-enhancers in the food, the chains' efforts to reel in young, susceptible consumers, and other unsettling facts.
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Part cultural history, part investigative journalism and part polemic...intelligent and highly readable critique....
Introduction | 1 | |
I. | The American Way | |
1. | The Founding Fathers | 13 |
2. | Your Trusted Friends | 31 |
3. | Behind the Counter | 59 |
4. | Success | 91 |
II. | Meat and Potatoes | |
5. | Why the Fries Taste Good | 111 |
6. | On the Range | 133 |
7. | Cogs in the Great Machine | 149 |
8. | The Most Dangerous Job | 169 |
9. | What's in the Meat | 193 |
10. | Global Realization | 225 |
Epilogue: Have It Your Way | 255 | |
Afterword: The Meaning of Mad Cow | 271 | |
Photo Credits | 291 | |
Notes | 292 | |
Bibliography | 356 | |
Acknowledgments | 362 | |
Index | 365 |