Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation

In Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser expands on why Americans should ditch fast food restaurants. He explores the origin of the most successful fast food chains, including McDonalds, Taco Bell, and Burger King. Split up into different sections, Schlosser describes the unsanitary kitchens, the underpaid employees, and the unsafe meatpacking industry. Above all the common theme found throughout this nonfiction book is the underlying greed found throughout the entire fast food industry. Schlosser starts off saying there is a reason that the obesity rate in America is prominent and growing: the fast food industry. The restaurants make sure people become addicted at a young age by specifically advertising to children. The easily accessible restaurants provide playgrounds and toys with children’s meals, with McDonalds alone being one of the biggest toy dispensers in the United States. However, that is not the only tactic that fast food chains use to attract children to their restaurants. There are increasing deals between food companies and school districts where the schools advertise fast food and soda, starting from elementary school. One company in particular, DD Marketing, has made numerous deals between food companies
Eventually the brothers were tired of having to replace broken dishes and having to keep track of a large menu, and thus made their descent into the modern-day McDonalds. Many members of the staff were fired in order to create an assembly line of food production. This began the poor treatment of McDonalds workers known today. Ray Croc was the man who had Congress pass a bill called the McDonalds Bill, which allowed for workers 16-17 years old to be paid 20% below the minimum wage. Since then it has been