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Article: A serving of fast food that even America can't stomach
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2001
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IF YOUR biggest worry about eating at a fast food restaurant is
whether to order a burger and fries or barbecue grilled nuggets and a
strawberry milkshake, then swallow hard and think again.
According to Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American
Meal, a best-selling new book that is putting millions of Americans
off their deep-fried favourites, you are actually making a decision
that involves biting into a slab of chemically enhanced beef made
from the meat of more than 100 different cows that is probably
contaminated with E-coli bacteria and almost certainly containing
faeces of some sort.
Alternatively, you may be swallowing a drink containing over 60
artificial colours and ...