Resumo de Fast Food Nation

In his book, Fast Food Nation, Eric
Schlosser spends a lot of time in history, relaying each new movement of the
fast food companies, and not only those, but the processing companies, and each
company involved in the success of these fast food companies. He begins his
piece of writing at the very beginning of fast food, in California, Colorado and many other states.

It
is a well written history. It is not at all what I expected as I began reading
it. It is not a full-out down-trodding of the fast food industry, but a history
of these companies and how each new invention, each innovation, has led to the
overpowering of the country by processed foods and fast food restaurants. He describes with amazing detail, communities
as they were, and what they have become as these industries buy out ranches,
land and other companies and implant themselves into each community. He also
describes the lives of the people in each different community, and how they are
affected and how generations have been affected by the growth of the fast-food
industry.

Schlosser invites his readers to see what
is on the inside of the companies, and withholds no information that he could
get his hands on. His research is shown through his knowledge of the subjects
discussed, and through the description he is able to portray. Although the
title, Fast Food Nation denotes what we would think would be a
description of just fast food, Schlosser identifies each aspect of fast food
franchises, and allows the public to see the larger view of the effect these
companies have had, and will have on the country and the world as they continue
to grow. Fast food alone, as he describes throughout the book, is not what has
taken over life in America, it is something much larger: it
is trend that it is involved in that continues moving forward and continues to
enlarge each year.

He writes a story, but with each sentence,
a fact. It speaks on the deterioration of a great country, because of the
meatpacking and food processing companies that have seemingly taken over the
country. It is a well-written book, with ideas and new information that catch
the eye and intrigue the mind; that really makes people of America think about what they are really
eating, in the bigger picture, when they go through that drive-through window. It
overflows with information from the birth of the fast food industry, to our day,
and unleashes the unknown of the world of fast food to the nation: a great
writing that would make anyone think twice about fast food.

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