Fast Food Nation Summary

Eric Schlosser’s best-seller, Fast Food Nation: The Dark side of the All American Meal, was first published in 2001. The main dilemma of the book is whether we are what we eat, and the author approaches this issue in a rather interesting way.
A discussion with Carl N. Karcher and the McDonalds brothers make the book opening, examining their influence as the bringers of the fast-food industry in California. This exchange is trailed by an examination of Ray Kroc and Walt Disney's muddled relationship and in addition every man's ascent to distinction. This part likewise considers the multifaceted, beneficial strategies for promoting to kids. Next, Schlosser visits Colorado Springs, CO and explores the life and working conditions of the run of the mill fast-food industry representative: fast-food restaurants utilize the most noteworthy rate of low-wage workers, have among the most noteworthy turnover rates, and pay the lowest

pay permitted by law to a higher extent of its representatives than some other American industry.
The second part of the book starts with a discussion of the substance segments that make the food taste so great and delicious.

Schlosser takes after this with an exchange of the life of a run of the mill farmer, considering the difficulties displayed to the agricultural world in another economy. Schlosser is maybe most provocative when he studies the meatpacking business, which he labels as the most hazardous employment in America. In addition, the meat delivered by slaughterhouses has turned out to be exponentially more unsafe since the centralization of the business: the way cows are raised, slaughtered, and handled gives a perfect setting to E coli to spread. Furthermore, working conditions keep on deteriorating. In the last section, Schlosser considers how fast food has developed as an American cultural fare taking after the Cold War: the breakdown of Soviet Communism has permitted the mass spread of American products and administrations, particularly fast food. Thus, the rest of the world is catching up with America's rising obesity

rates.
The author emphasizes different aspects of that problem from different perspectives. The phenomenal growth of the fast food industry has been driven by principal changes in American society. Amid that period, ladies entered the workforce in record numbers, regularly propelled less by a feminist point of view than by a need to pay the bills. In 1975, around 33% of American moms with youthful youngsters worked outside the home; today just about 66% of such moms are utilized. As the sociologists Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni have noticed, the passage of such a large number of ladies into the workforce has extraordinarily expanded interest for the sorts of administrations that housewives customarily perform: cooking, cleaning, and kid care. An era prior, seventy five percent of the cash used to purchase food in the United States was spent to get ready meals at home. Today about portion of the cash used to purchase food is spent at restaurants - chiefly at fast food restaurants.
In showcasing to kids, Schlosser proposes, enterprises have penetrated schools through sponsorship and compensation. He sees that diminishments in corporate tax assessment have come to the detriment of school financing, consequently giving numerous enterprises the open door for sponsorship with those same schools. As per his sources, 80% of supported course books contain material that is one-sided for the patrons, and 30% of secondary schools offer fast foods in their cafeterias.
In his examination of the meat pressing industry, Schlosser finds that it is currently ruled by easygoing, effortlessly misused worker work and that levels of harm are among the most noteworthy of any occupation in the United States. Schlosser examines his discoveries on meat pressing organizations IBP, Inc. what's more, on Kenny Dobbins. Schlosser additionally describes the strides included in meat handling and uncovers a few dangerous practices obscure to numerous customers, for example, the act of rendering dead pigs, stallions and chicken fertilizer into dairy cattle nourish. This being said, it’s clear that the author is taking on the topic from different perspectives, trying to clarify it in a way fro everyone to understand it.