Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser

First book by journalist about the fast food industry in USA and how it has spread around the world. Digresses into discussion on the role of this big business into US politics. Very interesting on the origin of now famous chains like McDonalds, KFC etc.. Strong "bugger me!" factor, with amazing facts and statistics every few pages. Truly disgusting stuff about poorly run food processing plants and bound to make every vegetarian (ie, about half the group) feel pretty damn smug.

Quite well written though hardly an impartial view.
Rory 23/09/01

A question arose when Andrew talked about this book - are Wimpy bars a purely UK phenomenon?
Andrew 2/12/01

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