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Fast Food Nation

What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World

Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Fast Food Nation reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification.

About Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), Command and Control (2013), and Gods of Metal (2015). Command and Control was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. He’s helped to produce numerous films, including Fast Food Nation, There Will Be Blood, and Food, Inc. Two of his plays, Americans and We the People, have been staged in London. He is currently at work on a book about prisons.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780141944210
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Price: £4.99
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