Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Aug. 30th, 2009 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxOK, so maybe I'm a little late to the Drive-Thru with this one, it being first published in 2001 (following on, I think, from two articles in Rolling Stone), so I'm guessing/hoping that things have changed (for the better) since that date.
Although, unsurprisingly, Schlosser has some unkind things to say about the food itself, much of the book is concerned with how the industry deals with its employees, and its relationship with government. Not to mention the creeping homogenisation of everything.
Oddly enough, this book covered some similar ground to Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting with Jesus that I read earlier this year (but currently can't find a link to) in its discussion of corporations' exploitation of their minimum-wage workforce.
As above, though, my enjoyment of the book was tempered slightly by the knowledge that we're nearly ten years on, now, and surely things can't be as bad now as they're portrayed here?
Definitely a good read, though, and now I want to track down his other books: Command and Control (to be published soon, I think) and Reefer Madness.
Although, unsurprisingly, Schlosser has some unkind things to say about the food itself, much of the book is concerned with how the industry deals with its employees, and its relationship with government. Not to mention the creeping homogenisation of everything.
Oddly enough, this book covered some similar ground to Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting with Jesus that I read earlier this year (but currently can't find a link to) in its discussion of corporations' exploitation of their minimum-wage workforce.
As above, though, my enjoyment of the book was tempered slightly by the knowledge that we're nearly ten years on, now, and surely things can't be as bad now as they're portrayed here?
Definitely a good read, though, and now I want to track down his other books: Command and Control (to be published soon, I think) and Reefer Madness.
