Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
The book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser changed my life. As a life-long cook and a current food scientist this book scared the hell out of me. And it's real life people, not fiction. It chronicles the history of all of today's major fast food chains and of Walt Disney. You might say.....Walt Disney.....but yeh, I said it. His connection to Ray Croc and McDonald's is so intrinsic and you never knew. The book details why America is getting so unhealthy and fat...fast food. It reminds me of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" because what he describes is like a nightmare but it is the truth. A fast food industry that both feeds and feeds off the young. The scary part is why fast food is so delicious and how it is so consistent. The food that is created has to be so consistent that mother nature herself had to be dropped by the wayside to achieve what they wanted. How is a burger at McD's the same in Istanbul and in Chicago? The food is all bioengineered. This book made me start buying only organic meats. And that is a big change with me being a cook. It costs more and is less easily found. It chronicles how all livestock for fast food is grown in the most disgusting and dirty conditions. All of the "veggies" are genetically engineered to unnatural states. Mad cow disease. Workers rights trampled to make a buck. Automation to replace workers. Farmers get screwed over. The truth behind the food you eat is in this book. The government facilitates all our health problems by not making legislation for more cleanly practices with our food supply. They make too much money from the meat industry to make any changes for our benefit. This is information everyone in the world needs to know, because in the future we will have no food left because we are poisoning and polluting it so much right now. Or we will become so fat we will not even be able to get up to go get fast food. This book is a must read because it contains information critical your health and of the injustice that these fast food stores are getting away with. 5 out of 5 Page-Turns