Abridged Audiobook
I just wanted to read this book to find out some more interesting stuff that isn't published in newspapers. What I've learned is that even though the book is written in 2001, not much had changed since. Especially when I've read about new outbreaks of bad stuff in food in during summer of 2010. That is almost 9 years since the book came out and most of it I think is still applicable today. So, everyone who buys stuff to eat at home and buy food at restaurants should read this book. Just like any FDA warning label. Should be made a part of that label for everyone to know.
Interesting facts about the history, structure, innovations in the fast food industry. The author beats you to death with his solutions to current problems. These solutions have been tried through out history and have failed.. eg. a labor union for fast food workers... lets see raise wages so a McDonald's employee can pay dues to an organization that is going to look out for them. Right. The issue with fast food is you and I. We don't have the self control to watch what we eat.
I give the author credit for writing a well researched book. However I felt the book could flow a little better at times I didn't feel the chapters connected. There were human interest stories about specific people doing what is right/moral, but they didn't seem to lead anywhere as the next chapter was once again pointing out how bad our slaughterhouses are. This book is very honest on the conditions in the slaughterhouses if you are squeamish this book is probably not for you.
You might never eat a fast food burger again. Frightening and appalling. Very well written and the research seems solid. Put me right off fast food franchises. A very worthy listen.
Really opened my eyes to some things and makes me not want to eat ... anything. Grayyyyyyt. It helped me realize in yet another way how our morality in social justice and our own health have been cashed in for convenience. I think I'm beginning to see the narrow path more clearly now ...
I have a much better eating habit after having read this book. Informative and entertaining.
I was expecting … then read this book! I was expecting a book along the lines of Morgan Spurlock’s “Supersize Me” movie. If “Supersize Me” is that ‘what’ of how fast food is affecting us as society, “Fastfood Nation” is the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of what our streamlined feeding process has become and what it has done to our entire world. Very thoughtful and VERY scary. I have still not eaten at a fast food place since reading this book. I highly recommend this for all comers.
This is one of the best audio books I've ever listened to. I thought the whole thing was fascinating. I couldn’t listen to it fast enough.
What an eye-opening book. Propaganda? I think not. Schlosser pretty much tells it like it is. Anyone who clings to the sentimental but foolish notion that politicians aren't bought off by the lobbyists for the major industry associations would do well to avoid this book. The reality is that we the taxpayers are providing corporate welfare -- directly and indirectly -- to those who all but enslave a captive workforce to do their dirty work. Bravo.
This was a very interesting book. From the history of fast food restaurants to the conditions of the meat packing processes (from feed lot to ground beef) there was quite a bit of food for thought. It was enough to change my buying habits.
Schlosser takes a look into the ingredients, the kitchens, and the corporate boardrooms behind America's fast food. The picture is not pretty. More important, he looks at how fast food has restructured American life--destroying family farms, changing the basic nature of the food we eat, transforming the work force from people with skills, pride in their work, and benefits, to disposable hands whose lives and personalities mean nothing to employers beyond what can be transcribed in dollars and cents. This book will make you reconsider where you buy food. I hope it will also help Americans reconsider the government they have elected to do their political work.
This author tries to use the same propaganda he denounces in his book to his own advantage. I felt insulted by his tactics. Initially a good read, but ultimately a big dissapointment. Also the book is very dated.
Interesting information regarding the dark side of the Fast Food industry. Some folks stopped eating at Fast Food places because of this book, though it didn't stop me. I can't resist those fries!
Well researched, thorough analysis of the implications of the fast food industry on the North American economy and culture. The gory details of the meat packing industry has stuck in mind. I'm definitely looking at alternatives to stopping at the local fast food joint.
I got this title after listening to "Don't eat this book." Our government, and good old fashioned greed, is going to kill this great country. The politicians have been bought and sold our safety, and our children's saftey. This will change the way I eat, and the way I vote in the future.
This book is an excellent piece of muckraking journalism! Some parts are literally sickening, other parts exhibit a gleam of hope...The author did alot of research, he definitely has an opinion and knows how to back it up. I was, and am, against fast food and advertising to children and all those things any good parent should be against, but this book confronts the listener with the corporate structure and cultural and economic implications. It had me laying awake at night, worrying that maybe I haven't sufficiently protected my son from the perfidious grasp of fast food and its ilk. Maybe just buying organic isn't enough.
This was a good book but don't listen to it if you love to eat meat. It may turn your appetite off for life! Some sections were so graphic that I had to skip forward. Definitely eye-opening as to the meatpacking industry and how pervasive fast food culture has become.
If ever you have wanted to change your eating habits, this will definately spur you on. The realization of what you are actually eating that comes from this book is tremendous. I doubt I will ever look at food the same.
This book had the most dense, interesting, factual, statistical, interesting, relavent information than any book I have ever read.
No holds barred, this is a politically incorrect book that thoroughly describes the fast food industry - from the early 1900s forward, from the beef ranch to "would you like fries with that". My review in one word: WOW. There are a lot of details, but they're all relevant. This book was not enough to convince be to become vegetarian, but it did make me think more carefully about what I'm eating and all the people who've had a hand in the preparation & serving of my food.
Just know when you get this book that it is a history about the fast food industry, not a book about fast food itself. The author goes on long tyraids connecting dots that are more assumption than fact. He makes drama where there is none, and clearly wants to blame every American problem on the fast food industry.
I'd been looking forward to this book for some time and it was so much more than I thought it would be. I didn't eat meat for a good few days after the slaughterhouse chapter! Really interesting and relevant book, would definitely recommend it to anyone who is in their car a lot and by association hits the drive-thru a lot.
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