In Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser exposes the less than tasteful practices of the fast-food industry, and reveals the harm it is doing to the people who eat it and the wider world generally. The whole process, from abattoir to service, is industrialised, with lots of artificialness involved, such as the chemicals developed to recreate natural flavours. The point, of course, is that this way of eating is not sustainable for humans or the planet, and the larger themes are that this is exactly the kind of unhealthy outcome that results from unfettered free-market capitalism, and that people tend to prefer living in ignorance rather than face up to the fact that there is an inconvenient problem that needs to be overcome.
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In Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser exposes the less than tasteful practices of the fast-food industry, and reveals the harm it is doing to the people who eat it and the wider world generally. The whole process, from abattoir to service, is industrialised, with lots of artificialness involved, such as the chemicals developed to recreate natural flavours. The point, of course, is that this way of eating is not sustainable for humans or the planet, and the larger themes are that this is exactly the kind of unhealthy outcome that results from unfettered free-market capitalism, and that people tend to prefer living in ignorance rather than face up to the fact that there is an inconvenient problem that needs to be overcome.