"Fast Food Nation"

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This paper examines how, according to the book, "Fast Food Nation", by Eric Schlosser, fast-food chains have caused as much damage as they have added to American culture. It looks at how it raises several of the major problems with fast-food restaurants, including taking advantage of poor and unskilled workers in factories and restaurants, questionable preparation of meat, loss of small private farms/ranges, and increases in obesity.

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"It is true that fast-food restaurants have made it easy to get a quick bite to eat. However, there are tradeoffs. Franchises have multiplied so much over the past several decades that is difficult to find any major city without a strip of these establishments along the main drag. As Fast Food Nation states: "The fast food chains feed off the sprawl of Colorado Springs, accelerate it and help set its visual tone. They build large signs to attract motorists and look at cars the way predators view prey." St. Louis exemplifies this problem. Sprawl is rapidly devouring choice farmland and open space. According to the American Farmland Trust, the five counties around St. Louis lost over 170,000 acres between 1981 and 1996, which comprised nearly one-third of developed farmland lost statewide during that period."

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