Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser Reviews

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser I bought this book a while ago on recommendation from my old economics teacher at school. Knowing him, I expected the book to be mainly a 289 page McBashing, which would show horror stories of what has been found in fast food and dodgy ethics practised by the big ...  Read the complete review

Britain is getting fatter according to numerous recent publications and shock TV documentaries. Apparently we eat more fast food than any other country in Europe. But we are still nowhere near as fat as America. I believe one half of Americans are now overweight or obese. This situation has resulted from a ...  Read the complete review

It was with a certain amount of schadenfreude that I approached this book. Even before I cracked the cover, I knew what it was about, and had ideas of the horror stories it would tell. And I for one knew that I would enjoy it in a way only those who have never, ever, eaten a fast food burger can. (For the record, I am vegetarian, but don’t ...  Read the complete review

First off I am not going to lie in this opinion, most of you think of me as a big fat liar, well on this op I am going to be totally honest, Ok? Actually it is alright since generally my real life is often times as effed up as my convaluted fantasies. Anyways I ran out and got this book after Ric! praised it in his opinion, which ...  Read the complete review

I purchased journalist Eric Schlosser's book yesterday, curious about the quotations from various newspaper reviews displayed on his cover. I spent the night reading it. Its is a fact that fast-foods are so much part of our urban background and eating habits that we don't even notice them anymore. They're a fast way to eat, ...  Read the complete review

It's lunchtime, you're hungry, and you need something quick. You walk through the doors of one of the popular fast food 'restaurants'. It's busy, there are lots of people around from all walks of life. Businessmen in suits, mothers with pushchairs and screaming children, men with big muscles and tattoos, adolescents with ...  Read the complete review

Now, as my regular reader might remember I joined a gym a few months ago and going there, coupled with a healthier diet is starting to pay dividends for me. However, my willpower isn’t always the greatest – how many times have you driven past a KFC, Burger King or McDonalds and thought you’d pop in for a bite to eat? I ...  Read the complete review

Fast Food is a marketing machine of a book, it's slick and intelligent, telling you what you *need* to know. Need being the operative there. I think everybody should read this book, it opens the readers eyes to the modern world. OK it is theoretically about hamburger and fast food outlets, but the book goes far beyond that and discusses labour ...  Read the complete review

Go Read!! Once I started this book, I didn't want to put it down! It seemed each page had a new revelation that amazed and/or disgusted me. This is a brilliant book with a wonderful insight to what really is happening, has happened in the fast food industry. For instance, think there's strawberries in your milkshake? Think again. Schlosser ...  Read the complete review

Americans spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software or new cars. Every month more than 90 percent of American children eat at McDonald's; the average American eats three hamburgers and four orders of french fries every week. What's in all those hamburgers? They're most ...  Read the complete review

Billed as a book that would make you think twice before putting a burger into your mouth again this book by Eric Schlosser provides an insight into how fast food came from nothing to its current dominant position in the restaurant trade. As someone who eats at these places reasonably often I figured that if I eat there then I should know a ...  Read the complete review

It's not exactly a secret that fast food isn't good for you. Most people know this but eat it anyway. It's handy. It's cheap. It's tasty. That's a hard combination to beat. We know there could be anything in that burger, but it's probabably not going to kill us, so we dig in. Eric Schlosser's new book Fast ...  Read the complete review