Fast Food for Thought ; Eric Schlosser's Expose of America's Burger Industry has Finally Made It to the Big Screen. But Will It Really Change the Way We Eat?
Evening Standard - London › April 20, 2007
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FAST Food Nation is a phenomenon.
Since it was first published in 2001, Eric Schlosser's expose of the dirty truths underlying America's takeaway industry has been, as the author puts it, "read by more people than I ever thought possible in my most megalomaniacal, egomaniacal moments". It has sold more than three million copies and been translated into 20 languages.See the full content of this document
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Fast Food for Thought ; Eric Schlosser's Expose of America's Burger Industry has Finally Made It to the Big Screen. But Will It Really Change the Way We Eat?
Schlosser's revelation that intensive abattoir methods resulted in foodstuffs contaminated with faecal matter as he puts it, that there was "shit in the meat" marked the beginning of the paradigm shift in the way the middle classes thought about food. And in proving that intelligent, investigative dissent could be both entertaining and sell well, the book was arguably the inspiration not only for Morgan Spurlock's popular, McDonald's-bashing Super Size Me, but for a raft of films attacking corporate culture, from the bluntly documentary ...
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