Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation And The Jungle

In the prestigious documentary film, Food Inc., produced by Robert Kenner and founded upon an Eric Schlosser’s book, Fast Food Nation, Mr. Kenner has an intriguing impact on the American consumers of many food products and industries. Throughout the film, viewers and everyday consumers of these various products, visualize what takes place behind the scenes in food factories, contrary to what they may see through forms of advertisement. The documentary generates an image of an “Agrarian America” in a naturalistic way to convey the message of what food production truly consists of. The film uses ethos, pathos, and logos as rhetorical devices to enhance the horrendousness of food production to its audience in multiple ways. Food Inc. provides not only a visual effect on the audience's emotion to portray its message, but uses a variety of commentary scenes from several experts and members within the food industry.

In his book "Fast Food Nation", Eric Schlosser shows how the fast food industry has infiltrated every corner of American Society. He tells of the disturbing reality that is American life today; almost every aspect of American life has been franchised or chained. Beginning in California and spreading throughout the entire country, Schlosser gives the history of the fast food industry and the evils and changes that developed with it.

The All-American meal takes more out of Americans to make then at first glance. Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation delves deep into the intricate workings of the fast food industry to expose mistreatment and cruelty towards workers in the business, just as Upton Sinclair had done in the early 1900’s regarding the meat packing industry. Schlosser is able to bring light to the darkness behind the All-American meal through extensive research and personal confrontations of which he has high regards for.

Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, is a stark and unrelenting look into the fast food industry that has ingrained itself in not only American culture, but in culture around the world. There is almost no place on earth that the golden arches has not entered. Aside from Antarctica, there is a McDonalds on every continent, and the number of countries that have fast food restaurants is growing on a daily basis. Schlosser describes in detail what happens behind the scenes, before the hamburger and fries come wrapped in environmentally safe paper and are consumed by millions of people daily

Freedom, independence, and opportunities; all these words come to mind when thinking about growing up, but there is no escaping a first job. Nowadays most of teens can be seen behind the counters of fast food places, but why has this become so popular? Through an appeal to ethos and pathos, Schlosser illustrates how the fast food industry utilizes the inexperience and emotions of America’s youth for personal gain and control.

In the book, Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser discusses the problems that the nation is facing with fast food restaurants. Schlosser wrote this book because he was concerned with where the fast food industry was taking America. He voices his concern about the children and their health regarding meat bacteria, and the fat content of the food. He also mentions how potato farmers, cattle ranchers, and chicken raisers are suffering from the industry controlling prices too low. Another worry Schlosser has is how the meat packing factories for these restaurants treat their workers and ultimately how careful they are with the meat. There are many horrifying stories about the harsh injuries and

The use of ethos and pathos in Fast Food Nation are less effective in strengthening Schlosser’s argument. Schlosser tries to use ethos to create a sense of credibility and trust to his readers. In the first chapter, for example, Schlosser writes positively about Carl Karcher, a fast food pioneer. He wrote “Carl grew up on a farm without running water or electricity. He’d escaped a hard rural life. The view outside his office window was not disturbing to him, I realized. It was a mark of success” (Schlosser 28). He chooses to praise Carl Karcher in the beginning to establish a more trustworthy and less biased position. Though Schlosser praises Carl Karcher and his fast food company in the first chapter, he viciously attacks the fast food industry

“Fast Food Nation” written by Eric Schlosser is an interesting, philanthropic read that was produced to promote the welfare of others in a benevolent way (1). Schlosser does this by informing society of the horrific events, mistreatment, and heartless doings for which the meatpacking industry has inflicted upon society. Throughout the read, Schlosser elaborates on the health situations regarding the workers by listing numerous stories and factual information. While supporting his claim, this information captures the reader’s attention and demonstrates how genuine the read actually is.

Fast Food Nation is comprehensively researched and dreadfully convincing. Most of the research comes from abundant first hand accounts and interviews that Schlosser conducted while traveling throughout the country. Schlosser's writing style is very interesting as he mixed personal stories with a landslide of facts and observations. He uses numerous sources including newspapers, journals, books, news reports, articles, and personal accounts. During the two years that he researched the book, he ate a lot of fast food and visited places that affect the fast food industry from the ground up. Schlosser documents all of his claims that he makes in the book. Fast Food Nation was one of the most well researched books that I have ever read.

In this piece of his book, Schlosser considers the workforce that keeps the fast-food industry running. Since this workforce is dominatingly embodied youngsters, Schlosser spends a significant part of the section considering how adolescents connect with the fast-food industry- - what are their working conditions; how does "low maintenance" employment meddle with school work; how do high schoolers spend their cash?

The time represented in Schlossers novel, is set forth into the 21st century and the setting includes fast food restaurants that are popular towards society today. The occasion is relevant to the novel because the subject Schlosser tries to inform readers is how fast food restaurants aren't as innocent as they are imaged to be, when many people in today's society visit these restaurants

In the book Schlosser focuses the attention of the book on behind the scene of a fast food restaurant. He brings up traps that the industry set up for buyers with their advertisement targeting younger audience. Another point that Schlosser brings up in this book is the quality of food in the industry. A majority of meat that fast food restaurant uses comes from slaughterhouses when slaughterhouses only make money from fast food they are more willingly to mass produce their product making everything much cheaper. This book can show me what happens behind the scenes in a fast food restaurant and what makes it so bad. How fast food is very convenient and inexpensive making it everyone's first

In “What We Eat” Eric Schlosser opens with a glimpse at the dominant role fast food plays in American culture. He continues by listing the different aspects of a society that dictate what the people consume; “What people eat (or don’t eat) has always been determined by a complex interplay of social, economic, and technological forces” (1024). Schlosser uses this as a stepping stone to later inform the reader as to why the fast-food industry originally sky-rocketed. Thus leading into the different ways in which fast food has shaped America and the effects it has had on society as a whole.

Imagine the most popular food in America, or even your favorite food, being covered in old grease and blood. Hamburgers. This is the most eaten food in our nation and it has become a high risk food because of the way it is processed. This food can affect your health due to how they are manufactured in our country. Americans have been adapted to not question on what happens behind the closed doors of our food industries, and how our favorite food is made is the last thing we think about. A permanent drape has been set up to blind us from the reality of our food process. “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, & “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser give us an insight of what is behind the industry doors. The two authors illustrate in a unique

The fast food empire is one of the largest and highest earning industries in the world. Yet even with the lime light constantly on it, fast food organizations continue to poorly treat workers, serve unhealthy food and find ways to carry out corrupt business. This paper will discuss these hidden secrets and also compare and contrast the differences in the book “Fast Food Nation” and the movie “Fast Food Nation”. The book and movie follow the same ideas but both uniquely describe and display the workings behind the fast food business, thus giving the widest possible perspective on the industry. By examining the images of the movie and the descriptions of the book, we can truly see why the United States has become a fast food nation.