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A 9 page overview of Schlosser's examination of
the fast food industry. The author provides a general overview of Schlosser's premises and reviews Chapter 2 of the book in considerable detail. No additional sources are listed.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPfastF2.rtf
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Eric Schlossers "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" illuminates many aspects of our modern food culture. Fast food has become an almost inextractible
part of America life. From a sociological perspective fast food has, in fact, become the norm rather than the exception. Fast food restaurants are so impregnated into our
cultural landscape that we think nothing about dropping in on a daily basis to pollute our bodies with saturate fats, high levels of sodium, as well as monosodium glutanate, and
other potentially toxic food additives. Our children are apparently inoculated at birth to recognize the beckoning call of the golden arches and the standardized features of other players in
the fast food industry. Our adults have come to depend on the speed and simplicity of the fast food industry to meet one of the most basic of their
familys needs, that of nourishment. In addition to fast food becoming the sociological norm and perpetuating both social and cultural change, it also thrives, on the social stratification which
characterizes our nation. It is, in fact, the less socioeconomically advantaged members of our society who have the potential to be most adversely affected by the industry. The fast
food industry, however, prides itself on perpetuating an internal culture all of its own. In Chapter 2 of "Fast Food Nation" Schlosser explores this culture as it is created
by McDonalds Corporation and emulated by the industry as a whole. Summary of Chapter 2
Author Eric Schlosser is among one of just a handful of writers to explore the darker side of the fast food industry, particularly
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