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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Paperback - 2005

by Eric Schlosser


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Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.

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In hisNew York Times bestseller, National Magazine Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats.

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  • Title Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
  • Author Eric Schlosser
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 383
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date July 5, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060838584 / 0060838582
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.85 x 5.28 x 1 in (19.94 x 13.41 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1240
  • Library of Congress subjects Food industry and trade - United States, Food habits - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code 394.109
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