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Article: Fast Food's Foe; Why the Author of 'Fast Food Nation' Won't Be Having Hamburger for Lunch
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 28, 2001
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You unwrap your fast food burger, pick it up and, just as you are
about to take a bite, you wonder: What exactly is in this meat?
And then you think: I really don't want to know.
Eric Schlosser is going to tell you anyway. His best-selling book,
"Fast Food Nation," flips off the bun, scrapes away the lettuce and
pickle and takes a long, hard look at that little brown patty.
The investigative journalist spent nearly three years meticulously
researching the fast food industry, from the slaughterhouses and
packing plants that turn out the burgers, to the minimum-wage workers
who cook them, to the television commercials that entice children to
eat them with the lure of cheap toys and colorful ...