by Eric Schlosser · ALLEN LANE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713996029
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«Fast Food Nation» is Eric Schlosser's essay on the fast food industry, published by Allen Lane in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Schlosser analyses how fast food went from a local business to a global industry and what it means for the economy, work and health. The book ranges from farms and slaughterhouses to franchises and flavour laboratories, and pays attention to young workers, children's advertising and the health risks of mass production.
The full title of the work is «Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World», and the original edition was published in 2001.
Recommended for non-fiction readers interested in food, sociology, investigative journalism and economics.
Eric Matthew Schlosser is an American journalist and food writer. He is known for his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).
