Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Extremely Important and Powerful Book:

Fast Food Nation deserves the widest possible audience. It should be assigned reading in every high school in the country. Parents of young children should also be encouraged to read it. Fast food chains, with their bright primary colors and happy faces, need to keep the truth about their products and practices well hidden. Otherwise their customers might think twice about coming back. Schlosser not only tells us what's in the food and how it gets produced, but he examines the depressingly one-sided... more info

Fast food fright:

Eric Schlosser presents a thoroughly researched, insightful yet startling expose of the fast food industry. Schlosser starts at the beginning, telling us the success stories of the pioneers of the industry such as Ray Kroc and the Mac Donald brothers.

The rationale for the developement of fast food is explored. With more women in today's workplace, less time is available for the preparation of meals and thus the need for fast food. The marketing of fast food is a subject that is brilliantly conceived by... more info

Appalling. Read it and weep.:

Since many other reviewers cover the more repulsive details of Schlosser's book, I will stick to pointing out something I think deserves even more attention: one of the themes of the book is that the fast food industry has its tentacles in EVERY aspect of Americans' lives. Changing this goes far, far beyond bypassing a Big Mac...boycotting fast food is not the same thing as boycotting the fast food industry, when industry practices have made the USDA powerless against meatpackers, advertisers target... more info

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