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Article: Fast Food Nation.
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2001
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There's no denying that fast food has changed the way people live and eat.
Not only has it changed our diet, but it has also had an impact on the landscape, economy, labor, and to a larger extent, popular culture. And when viewed on a much larger scale ---- whether it's the food or the industry itself ---- it is a phenomenon, which has spread to all corners of the globe.
``Unlike other commodities,'' writes Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, ``fast food isn't viewed, read, played or worn. It enters the body and becomes part of the consumer.''
In this illuminating, detailed study of the fast food ...