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= Fast Food Nation =

=== The author of Fast Food Naiton is Eric Schlosser, and I personally believe he is a great author and I admire him after reading this book. He really takes the time to reveal and expose what us overweight Americans are shoving into our mouths. One of his main goals is to raise health awareness. People now a days eat way to much fast food. Some statistics show that 11 out of 20 people eat fast food more than once a day. Eric also hits a major pin point in the fast food industry: how much hard work people go through to meet the standards of the products and start their own companies. It's a hard start for industries and companies in this extremly competitive business. Also he doesn't just take you inside the food, but he takes you through the entire process of creating the fast food. It also takes you through what is IN THE FOODS, such as their meats, their drinks, their plastics, their condiments, their fries, and their sides. For example, there are over 100 different cow parts in 1 McDonalds hamburger.That is so gross!!! There are many different topics in the book, another one of them being how people in our time spend more money on fast food than they do on education in one year. It really opened my eyes, and it digusted me. It also mentions slaughter houses. A slaughter house is a place where they cut and butcher the meat. They kill the animals there, and take the meat they want from their bodies in these houses. The conditions are brutal, and disgusting. The people that work there are usually illegal immigrants, or people that just recently got out of jail. The wages are low and the hours are long, and they are extremly dangerous. Some fast food resturants have shut down becuase their customers have been food posined and have gotten diseases out of the food. Most of the diseases come from the slaughter houses. Eric bolds the secrets behind these sneaky fast food resturants. Its not just a burger on the grill, and he shows us so much more than just the image of a delicious hamburger, sitting on a bed of lettuce, cheese and sauses, layered between 2 seasame seed buns. Oh no, there is so much more than that to a burger, and I know now because I read this incredibly packed full of nutrition facts books. This book uncovers everything, some of the things I wish I never knew. ===