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    Fast Food Nation Summary

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    Specter uses outside sources such as, Eric Schlosser who wrote Fast-food Nation in 2001. By including outside sources Specter is able to credit his information and make sure that he has accurate and compelling information. To provide even more accuracy, he even includes quotes from other authors such as this quote, “In 2012, companies produced enough regular soda to supply every single person in America, regardless of age, with nearly thirty gallons,’’ from Marion Nestle who the recently published

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    Over the last 50 years, the fast food industry not only sold hamburgers and French fries. It has been a key factor for vast social changes throughout America. It has been responsible for breaking traditional American values and reinstating new social standards that specifically aims to benefit the industry’s growth. These social standards have inevitably changed the way the American youth respond to education and self-responsibility. Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the

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    In the novel Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal, journalist Eric Schlosser investigates the influence of the American fast food industry. One of the most prominent rhetorical devices that Schlosser utilizes throughout his writing is Logos. Logos is one of three rhetorical appeals and, as defined by Aristotle, is the appeal to logic and is a way of persuading an audience through reason. By presenting facts and statistics on nearly every page Schlosser subconsciously causes the

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    The fast food industry uniquely supplies desired food products at almost lightning speed. Managing the supply chain function for the fast food industry can be quite challenging. There are many critical elements in supply chain management. For the fast-food industry, such as Wendy’s, in my opinion the most important elements are impacted by six critical element drivers: facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing and pricing. However, the most important driver for franchisors and

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    Both chapter eight of Fast Food Nation and the excerpt from The Jungle depict gruesome images of the reality of a meat factory. These passages were written by muckrakers who felt it was their duty to expose the truth of the food industry to the American people. The authors tried to express the same messages in these pieces; through the use of diction and characterization, Upton Sinclair and Eric Schlosser are able to convey to the public the horrors of the meat-packing industry and the treatment

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    has the largest fast food industry in the world. Providing meals for millions of families and employment for over two million workers. But is it to blame for the childhood obesity epidemic in America? When we take a look at the arguments made by Dan Harris, and Daniel Weintraub we can see the divided fight against fast foods. I agree with Weintraub, the author of The Battle Against Fast Foods Begins in the Home (excerpt 2) because parents have the ultimate power against fast food companies, and they

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    The modern day fast food industry has dramatically progressed since it was first brought into the world in 1921, Diffusing from Wichita, Kansas developing many (new) successful companies and franchises that have made over millions of dollars in profit, But ‘whatever goes in must come out’ since the money that is profit goes back into the production of the foods sold to the modern world that are now displayed and advertised daily around the globe leaving people with the urge to get a taste of what

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    Fast Food Impacts on the U.S. Although fast food gives you satisfaction, it causes a significant amount of damage to your body. Fast food restaurants have many effects on the citizens of the United States, which tend to be more harmful than positive. People should avoid fast food restaurants altogether to prevent diseases such as diabetes that has been linked to eating fast food, and to help children achieve the test scores they are capable of producing. If it is, however, too hard to avoid eating

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    Fast food nation We live in a world that is in a continuous process of transformation, considering that progress manages to control all the aspects of individual's life. Being part of a society which is always changing makes it essential for people have to adapt to all these aspects. One of the biggest problems for the American society is that it has no time to eat, since it is always on the run. Fast food came as the greatest solution for this problem. Since the process of modernization of the

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    Fast food has quickly managed to imprint itself on American culture. The greasy, unhealthy form of empty calories has infiltrated into the homes of many, including my own. In my younger days, my parents often took me out and treated me to french fries and chicken nuggets. It had become a tradition to go to McDonald’s every week. This poor eating pattern has now led to my family having a special fondness for the fast food chain, just as McDonald’s strives for. In Fast Food Nation, Schlosser describes

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