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    Mmm that fast food, the stuff I flock to at an airport, the stuff that I crave after a game on a soccer road trip, the stuff I find myself eating more often than not late on a Friday or Saturday night. I ordered, I ate, and I enjoyed. But I didn't really give much thought, other than that, to fast food. Eric Schlosser really opened my eyes to the world of fast food in his book Fast Food Nation. Little did I know that the so called food that I was eating was the product of decades of work and refinement

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    Uniformity Creates More Disadvantages Than Advantages     In the book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser discusses uniformity and the many effects it has on the fast food industry. According to Schlosser, uniformity is used in chain restaurants and franchises in order to provide consumers with the same service and products in different sites. Uniformity is beneficial when it comes to consumers and businesses because the prices of products are lower when businesses use mass production and the more companies

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    one was the most interesting to me so far, I have chosen to summarize and review it. The main theme in this chapter is to explain and describe the making of the fast food industry. Schlosser goes through the stories, inspiration and influences of, what he has entitled the chapter, “the founding fathers” the men who started the fast food industry. Schlosser begins the chapter with the story of Carl N. Karcher, the creator of Carl’s and Carl’s Jr., saying how his life was that of “The America dream

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    Fast food is a growing complication in the United States and is getting worse every year. On average, the average American spends an estimated $1,200 on fast food each year. Children consume an estimated 12 percent of their calories from eating fast food every year. Some that should be considered include “Fed Up”, “Food Inc.”, and the book Fast Food Nation. There is one source that should be considered when choosing one’s food and that had influenced my way of thinking about the food around me the

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    the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, the topic of the lucrativeness of the American fast food industry is widely examined. It includes testimonials from real fast food and factory workers and also provides some history into how the fast food industry started and why it came to be. Even though these restaurants may look innocent at first glance, there is much more in these multibillion corporations than meets the eye. Globalization, exploitation of teenage/immigrant labor, and food safety laws

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    In fast food nations we’ve been reading about the fast food industry and how there’s uniformity, conformity, and centralized control and how we, the individual, are involved. When reading this one realizes that they, as an individual, plays a major role when it comes to the business. Not only does this apply to the hard and complex system that is the “fast food nation” but it also applies to outside that. Since “social norms” became a thing, and since people started losing “individualism”, there

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    Fast Food Nation, a book written by Eric Schlosser, gives readers a chance to learn about the fast food industry. The book names in the first part, one of the major founders of the fast food industry. Karl N. Krocher is the founder of Carl’s Jr. which is a very popular fast food chain in California. The remarkable thing about most of the pioneers of our fast food restaurants we have today, is that most of the dropped out of school at an early age and began working at low wage jobs. Later, they would

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    Fast Food Nation Chapter Summaries

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    scent of your shaving cream is the same as that governing the flavor of your TV dinner,” (Schlosser 122). Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal was a Princeton graduate with a degree in American History. He’s written for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996 where he was given a prompt about America and its fast food industry. His simple magazine article transformed into an international bestseller. His book was on the New York Times bestsellers list

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    What is the topic? This book started by basing on the founders that had changed America's fast food restaurants. Many of the restaurant founders did not even have a high education, they all dropped out of school at an early age. Carl N. Karcher was a farmer, but then later his uncle offered him a job in Anaheim, where his whole life had changed completely. He was the first person who changed the fast food industry. Later, came along the McDonald's brothers whom came across with a system called Speedeeserve

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    the meat industry in the United States, the works of Upton Sinclair and Eric Schlosser contain eerily similar accounts in attempt to expose the dangers behind our food. These shocking revelations exposed by Sinclair and Schlosser have forever changed the way our nation views its food. Sinclair 's The Jungle and Schlosser 's Fast Food Nation discuss the topics of factory conditions and their safety, prevalence of immigrant workers, the conditions of animals and their health, and the corruption behind

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