Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
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Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. He hangs out with the teenagers who make the restaurants run and communes with those unlucky enough to hold America's most dangerous job - meatpacker. He travels to Las Vegas for a giddily surreal franchisers' convention where Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the keynote address. He even ventures to England and Germany to clock the rate at which those countries are becoming fast food nations.
Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.
©2001 by Eric Schlosser(P)2001 Random House, Inc.
Random House Audible, a division of Random House, Inc.
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- The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
- By: Rose George
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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We prefer not to talk about it, but we should. Disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, nearly two million people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject remains unmentionable. Moving from the underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York (an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen) to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, The Big Necessity breaks the silence, revealing everything that matters about how people do - and don't - deal with their own waste.
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Utterly fascinating
- By Clayton on 03-31-19
By: Rose George
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
- By: Tim Harford
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette's disposable razor to IKEA's Billy bookcase, best-selling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts each invention's own curious, surprising, and memorable story.
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Thought provoking
- By Paul Norris on 09-10-17
By: Tim Harford
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Garbology
- Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
- By: Edward Humes
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash - what's in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity.
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A phenomenal read & serious eye-opener
- By Andy Feicht on 10-07-18
By: Edward Humes
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The Boom
- How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
- By: Russell Gold
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of "fracking". Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work, Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country’s energy infrastructure; he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota; and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters, CEOs and roughnecks, environmentalists and politicians.
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Somehow the author manages to stay balanced
- By Emily C on 05-28-14
By: Russell Gold
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The Kelloggs
- The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
- By: Howard Markel
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet.
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Good History, Best for Battle Creek Folks
- By ftmgal on 08-26-18
By: Howard Markel
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Enough
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- By: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.
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It's Time For Us To Be More Compassionate
- By James on 07-18-10
By: Roger Thurow, and others
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Chocolate Wars
- The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
- By: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrated by: Deborah Cadbury
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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With a cast of characters that wouldnt be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late 19th century, when the Swiss discovered a way to blend it with milk and unleashed a product that would conquer every market in the world.
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The World of Chocolate
- By Jean on 11-05-14
By: Deborah Cadbury
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Mercy for Animals
- One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals
- By: Gene Stone, Nathan Runkle
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small Midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nation's leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory farmed animals. In Mercy for Animals, Nathan brings us into the trenches of his organization's work; from MFA's early days in grassroots activism, to dangerous and dramatic experiences doing undercover investigations, to the organization's current large-scale efforts at making sweeping legislative change to protect factory farmed animals and encourage compassionate food choices.
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Powerful, emotional and inspiring
- By Keegan on 10-27-17
By: Gene Stone, and others
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China, Inc.
- By: Ted C. Fishman
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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China today is visible everywhere: In the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred, and why it already affects us all.
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Just read the Amazon reviews befor buying it ...
- By Dan on 08-10-05
By: Ted C. Fishman
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Hippie Food
- How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat
- By: Jonathan Kauffman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Food writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a century - to the 1960s and 1970s - to tell the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would ultimately change how modern Americans eat. Impeccably researched, Hippie Food chronicles how the longhairs, revolutionaries, and back-to-the-landers rejected the square establishment of President Richard Nixon's America and turned to a more idealistic and wholesome communal way of life and food.
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If you grew up eating health food you'll love it
- By Susie Wyshak on 05-09-18
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In Defense of Food
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Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion—most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become.
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Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land - from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
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- Charles Elmore
- 11-22-03
Ummm....yummy
The book starts off rather calm and collected, but builds, taking the listener through every aspect of the fast food industry -- from hoof to burger. By the end of it, the author is ranting with such force that you want to rise up with him and do your part. Even thought it is abridged, the book is satisfyingly long; after awhile, it becomes like your favorite hobby.
So what is a fast food nation? Apparently it has something to do with the American, homogenized, Disneyfied, McDonalised, oligopoly that we live in today. Drive down any main street in America, and you are likely to see the same retail stores, gas stations, and, yes, eating establishments. Urban sprawl seems to be driven by franchises, which function as military outposts on new suburban frontiers. Once they move in, the rest of the troops follow. And what is the cumulative effect of all of this blase cookie cutter culture on our standard of living here in the good old USA?
Well, something sinister, rest assured.
For example, our food supply is being controlled by huge corporations who have no respect for the American dream...NO respect, mister. Our children are being targeted from birth by an ungodly assortment of scientists, flavorists, and advertisers who will stop at nothing to add another body to the Matrix. Oh, yes, yes, it is all true. But, there is still time. You can walk out of that fast food restaurant before it gets you too -- you, you fat, overweight, obese, typical, American consumer. Put down that french fry! Put it down, I say!
Highly recommended. 4 stars = excellent.
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- Noe
- 12-08-04
What an eye opener! Disturbing yet enjoyable book
Amazing. I loved the research he put into this, and the stories about the corrupt meat packing industry (some references to the "Jungle"), and the crimes at Fast Food restaurants committed by their own employees. I also learned a lot about 'natural' and 'artificial' flavorings. As obesity is a hot topic these days this book would be a great supplement to understanding its problems. I got a bit tired of hearing about Colorado but it was interesting. I would also check out "Supersize Me" and its DVD bonus feature where you will find the filmmaker's interview with the author. I've been boycotting McD's and other fast food chains after listening to this book.. The narrator was excellent. He read in a good speed and had good energy.
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- Gwen Baker
- 12-18-18
Maybe different edition of the book recorded?
Unfortunately the audio book maybe was not the same edition as my physical copy? It skipped over chapters and paragraphs which was very frustrating. The actual book was very entertaining and informative.
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- Barry
- 09-10-03
Must Reading About Fast Food Eating
Well written and well read. You'll be sorry when it's over. Every parent who has ever taken a child to a fast food restaurant, needs to listen to (or read) this book, before going again. The worker abuses we thought went out with the early part of the last century, are alive and thriving under the golden arches and at their suppliers. If only 1/2 of what this book reveals is true, then we are fools and hypocrites for supporting this industry with our personal and tax dollars. I travel through factories in China and workers there are paid and treated better, than workers at your local Burger King.
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- tsda
- 09-07-15
good book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it teaches you a lot about fast food companies, and how they get there food
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- Zeev Bareket
- 08-28-18
A must read
If you care about what you eat and how it gets to you - you owe it to yourself to read/listed to this.
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- Allen
- 04-17-06
All good, except for 1 thing ...
I liked everything about this book except for one thing. I appreciate the information, which is pretty much right on. I enjoyed listening to the narrator - his style, for the most part, made the book a more enjoyable listen. My one exception to the book is apparently the author cares more about what goes in his stomach than what comes out his mouth. Though I enjoyed the book and am glad I purchased it, the F-bombs and other colorful words sprinkled throughout make it something I don't listen to around the children or in public places. If not for this, I'd give it 5 stars.
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- Robert Williams
- 07-06-03
enjoyable simply because it is so very disturbing
This is a powerfully thought provoking book. It is enjoyable simply because it is so very disturbing. As a high-school teacher I found the information relating to the necessity of a large uneducated workforce enlightening. Also, the detailed examples about food processing and taste are well...thought provoking. And, the information about the aggressive campaigning for ever younger customers has lead my wife and I into many discussions about the amount of television and fast food we are willing to let our children consume.
I am critical of the author's biased approach to the material, but he clearly states his agenda at both the beginning and end of the book; so the material can be read with the knowledge that this book is a prosecution of the industry with no real defense.
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- Qbook
- 08-10-03
Sets Some Facts Out Clearly
The best part of this book is the history of fast food and the growth of big business, often at the expense of society and the consumer. There isn't much most of us don't already know, but the details are set out here clearly. A weakness of the book, which really gets serious in the second half, is the critical tone of the author about everything related to fast food companies and their supply chains. While citing the numbers of those sickened from fast food meat contamination, the "objective" high tone of the book was calling out for some context, such as the numbers of people sickened from traditional Sunday church outings maybe. Overall though, a read that will help you stay away from McDonalds, which you already know you should, but often find hard to do.
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- Levi
- 04-30-03
Many angles on the fast food industry
I thought this book was going to be mainly about the health issues surrounding fast food, but that is such a minor part of it. We learn about the entire history of the industry, its effects on popular culture, economics, and other related food industries. I knew there was good reason to stay away from certain fast food restaurants based simply on health reasons, but now there are so many others, not the least of which are how they exploit their workers and enable partners in other food industries to exploit their workers. After listening to this book, I pretty much stayed out of fast food restaurants for almost two years. It is really a fascinating and persuasive book!
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