Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation

“Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.” – Eric Schlosser --

The film, “Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood” takes a closer look at how the negative impact advertising and marketing is having on the children who are the main targeted audience especially because they are easy to manipulate. The United States is a country that cares a lot about consumers. People are around advertisement and marketing all the time in every place they go. In fact, people live to buy, people need and want things constantly and it will never stop. In the American economy consumerism may be a leading role. Most would say the advertisements are a way to promote information about services and products, but in most cases, it involves deception and manipulation. For years now consumerism has been the trademark of the American way of life and now that society has embraced it so fully, it seems that even children are being born and raised with the same mindset. The kids influence their parents buying decicions and they’re the adult consumers of the future.Our bank account might be affected by advertisement, but many adults don’t realize the ways are brain are affected by it. Parents have to teach their kids that many of the things advertise are not good, by not always buying what their kids want. Government regulations need to put a stop to corporations that live, breathe and sell the idea of consumerism to children.

The All-American meal takes more out of Americans to make then at first glance. Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation delves deep into the intricate workings of the fast food industry to expose mistreatment and cruelty towards workers in the business, just as Upton Sinclair had done in the early 1900’s regarding the meat packing industry. Schlosser is able to bring light to the darkness behind the All-American meal through extensive research and personal confrontations of which he has high regards for.

In the book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser talks about the working conditions of fast food meat slaughterhouses. In the chapter “The Most Dangerous Job,” one of the workers, who despised his job, gave Schlosser an opportunity to walk through a slaughterhouse. As the author was progressed backwards through the slaughterhouse, he noticed how all the workers were sitting very close to each other with steel protective vests and knives. The workers were mainly young Latina women, who worked swiftly, accurately, while trying not to fall behind. Eric Schlosser explains how working in the slaughterhouses is the most dangerous profession – these poor working conditions and horrible treatment of employees in the plants are beyond

Eric Schlosser used background information and sympathized on Carl Kartcher for specific reasons. Schlosser wanted to show the readers that back in the 40s and 50s that fast food was not nearly what it is today. They were family owned restaurants that spent a lot of time and money on making the best products possible. Carl was able to start his own barbeque restaurant like he wanted and it was a success. The sympathy that Schlosser used was to try and get the reader to agree with him. Sympathy is an effective way to get the reader to agree with you because it deals with emotions and emotions usually sway a reader to one side of the argument or the other.

Beef and dairy are no longer a delicacy to our society; they have become a staple of the American diet. In Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, not only did he show us how the fast food industry changed America's history, he also detailed the ways it changed America’s behavior, which then directly influenced its citizens’ health, and not for the better. Beef and dairy are less an example of how we should eat than how we shouldn’t.

The book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser it proves how every individual within our society inherently subscribes to one of the most wrong industry in world and accepts it without pressure. Although, it is disheartening, “life sucks then you die” as my father constantly tells me. You are an individual within your society and you must understand that to succeed in whats around you. To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, understanding what happens in our society and accepting it, and how the realest people in the world we will never know about . This is learned and molded by the people of our country and the world daily and eventually it will affect every person in this nation, because aftermath of not accepting the truth can haunt a nation forever.

Fast food restaurants exude bright colors, distribute meals with toys, and create a sense of happiness, but what truly goes on behind the scenes of this magical industry? In Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, the authors use similar rhetorical strategies to reveal the motives and unconventional practices of the food industry. Schlosser conveys his purpose through the utilization of pathos, ethos, anecdotes and imagery as compared to Sinclair who uses historical references and figurative language as well as imagery and pathos.

Many feel that the fast food industry is providing a valuable service by catering to consumer needs; that it is inexpensive and easily accessible. For people who don't have time to prepare meals, for households in which both parents work, there's no question it provides a service. But what is the true cost of this convenience? In the book, Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser reveals that the cost is the lives of the people who work in the meat processing plants. Meat packing is now the most dangerous job in the United States.

Timeless is defined as “not affected by the passage of time or changes in fashion.” Truman Capote was quoted as saying that the “first essential of the nonfiction novel” is that “there is a timeless quality about the cause and events.” However, non-fiction books cover a huge variety of genres and not all of them are timeless.

In eric schlosser's book fast food nation: The dark side of the american meal, he explores the global impact of the American Fast Food Industry. Schlosser's begins the book talking about one of fast foods pioneers, Carl Karcher. Carl Karcher, born in 1917 in Ohio, had dropped out of school and worked many hours the the farm with his father. At twenty years old, his uncle offered him at job at his Feed and Seed Store in California.While working at his uncle's store Karcher met his wife Margaret and decided to begin a family. During this time Carl bought a hot dog cart where Margaret sold hot dogs, while he worked in a bakery. At the time, California’s population began growing rapidly, along with the auto industry. Eventually, Carl opened his

One of the most shocking books of the generation is Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation. The novel includes two sections, "The American Way" and "Meat and Potatoes,” that aid him in describing the history and people who have helped shape up the basics of the “McWorld.” Fast Food Nation jumps into action at the beginning of the novel with a discussion of Carl N. Karcher and the McDonald’s brothers. He explores their roles as “Gods” of the fast-food industry. Schlosser then visits Colorado Springs and investigates the life and working conditions of the typical fast-food industry employee. Starting out the second section, Schlosser travels to the western side of Colorado to examine the effects presented to the agriculture world in the new

Eric Schlosser’s novel Fast Food Nation provides a deep insight into the systematic and unified world of the fast food industry. From the title alone, readers develop a clear sense of the author’s intention for writing this book. Schlosser’s purpose for writing the novel is to raise awareness about the impact and consequences of fast food industries on society. The purpose of the novel is achieved by the author’s use of personal stories, and by relating fast food to various aspects of society.

The New York Times bestseller Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is one of the most riveting books to come out about fast food restaurants to date (Schlosser, 2004). Fast food consumption has become a way of life for many in the United States as well as many other countries in the world. The author Eric Schlosser an investigative reporter whose impeccable researching and bold interviewing captures the true essence of the immense impact that fast food restaurants are having in America (2004). Beginning with McDonald’s, the first fast food restaurant, which opened on April 15, 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois to current trends of making fast food a global realization McDonald’s has paved the way for many fast food

“The market is interested in getting to that child at the very beginning to begin to shape that’s child’s worldview, to begin to shape that child’s brand preferences.” (Barbaro, Young and Earp) Children are marketer’s main targets because children have young minds and are easy to persuade. Children will be the future consumers of America. They are very vulnerable and are being bombarded with many commercial messages every day. My youngest brother tends to believe everything he watches on TV. One day he came up to my mother and said “Mom you should buy the Charmin toilet paper it’s stronger than all the other toilet papers” he was obviously persuaded by the commercial. Marketers know that a child’s brain is like little a sponge it absorbs everything they hear and see. Marketer’s main goal is to get brand loyalty for life by teaching children that life is about wanting and buying. They want to turn children into lifelong consumers. I do not agree with commercialization of children it does not bring anything positive into their lives. Children commercialization affects the children’s values, mindset, and their future. These advertisements are harming them and some people fail to realize that. Children are being brainwashed with these commercials and being manipulated.