A review by andrewburgess
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

3.0

Eric Schlosser provides a very well researched look into the side of the fast food industry many people are unaware of. I did not know the extent of many of the regulations that the meat packing industry can side step around. The very fact that the USDA can barely exert any control is quite simply frightening.

I enjoyed Schlosser's analogy comparing fast food to drugs, and how eating fast food shouldn't be a high risk behavior. Someone choosing to smoke crack knows of the risks, but someone eating a hamburger has no idea if that patty might just be their last.