He talks about the fast food workforce and restaurant policies towards them. The author, Eric Schlosser, presents the information in two sections titled “The American Way” and “Meat and Potatoes.”In “The American Way,” Schlosser provides a history of fast food restaurants focusing mostly on Carl’s and McDonalds. What an informative book! I learned much about the beginning of fast food industry and its impact on food production. To eat any other way is just scary to comprehend. McDonald's and the like will never get another dollar of my cash to damage this country further.I haven't given up on meat by any means, I just make sure that I'm eating animals that were treated well, fed real food, not pumped full of antibiotics, and handled properly when slaughtered to avoid contamination. I don't want to name all of the things, but the most important ones include:-the unhygienic treatment of cows and chickens (bad for your health and cruel to the animals)-substandard quality of food you put in your body (yes, there are feces in your hamburger)-dangerous and unsanitary working conditions at meat factories and slaughterhouses-pressure from food corporations on Congress to keep worker wages down and leave profits highReading this book made me realize how much damage I was causing in supporting fast food restaurants that utilize the infrastructure that uses poor people and forces low-quality food on us.
It's been several years since I've read it, but I still cannot bring myself to eat at a McDonald's-type fast food place, for health as well as moral reasons.Schlosser describes in great detail just what it is you support every time you give your money to a corrupt company as influential as McDonald's. Not just a great book, but a life-changing book.
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