Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: Undermining American Values
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Andrew F. Smith once said, “Eating at fast food outlets and other restaurants is simply a manifestation of the commodification of time coupled with the relatively low value many Americans have placed on the food they eat”. In the non-fiction book, “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser, the author had first-hand experiences on the aspects of fast food and conveyed that it has changed agriculture that we today did not have noticed. We eat fast food everyday and it has become an addiction that regards many non-beneficial factors to our health. Imagine the wealthy plains of grass and a farm that raises barn animals and made contributions to our daily consumptions. Have you ever wonder what the meatpacking companies and slaughterhouses had done to the meat that you eat everyday? Do you really believe that the magnificent aroma of your patties and hamburgers are actually from the burger? Wake up! The natural products that derive from farms are being tampered by the greed of America and their tactics are deceiving our perspectives on today’s agricultural industries. The growth of fast food has changed the face of farming and ranching, slaughterhouses and meatpacking, nutrition and health, and even food tastes gradually as time elapsed.
Fast food has changed farming, ranching, and meatpacking to an extent where it is nearly impossible to recover due to the amount of meat that is being consumed in the United States and the amount of meat that are required to prepare those products in America and other foreign countries. The author of Fast Food Nation stated, “Ranchers currently face a host of economic problems: rising land prices, stagnant beef prices, oversupplies of cattle, increased shipments of live cattle from Canada and Mexi...
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...es of cattle, which resulted in the increase of suicidal reports. Slaughterhouses and meatpacking companies have amplified the amount of cattle slaughtered each hour to fulfill the amount of meat consumed in the United States due to the cause of fast food. The damage that fast food had placed on illegal immigrant workers and sanitary workers that are employed in slaughterhouses are as much as murdering the men and women, minute by minute. The growth of fast food is too fast for our voices to be heard and fast food had implemented too much innovation in agriculture today for us to fix. We can still change the society that we live in today, as long as we withdraw our arrogant and selfish thoughts on fast food and think of ways to improve and recover what the fast food industry had done.
Work Cited
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. New York: Perennial, 2002.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that fast food has changed agriculture that we didn't have noticed. it has become an addiction that regards many non-beneficial factors to our health.
- Explains that fast food has changed farming, ranching, and meatpacking to an extent where it is nearly impossible to recover due to the amount of meat that is being consumed in the united states.
- Argues that fast food products are addictive and taste good, but a majority of the american population doesn't recognize the least amount of nutrition being taken in.
- Opines that fast food has changed agriculture that we didn't have noticed. it has become an addiction that regards many non-beneficial factors to our health.
- Explains that fast food has changed farming, ranching, and meatpacking to an extent where it is nearly impossible to recover due to the amount of meat that is being consumed in the united states.
- Argues that fast food products are addictive and taste good, but a majority of the american population doesn't recognize the least amount of nutrition being taken in.
- Opines that the exact flavor and replica of fast food without their original ingredients are negating our beliefs and satisfying us so that we think strawberry milkshakes have strawberries in them.
- Analyzes how fast food companies added preservatives to their food to keep their taste and make it palatable. fast food has changed the entirety of food tastes and their natural flavors.
- Opines that the growth of fast food has furthered the gap between past agricultural industry and modern day agriculture industry along with the impacts on slaughterhouses, meatpacking, nutrition and health.
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