Fast Food Nation movie

An ensemble piece examining the health risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. First serialized by Rolling Stone in 1999, the book has drawn comparisons to Upton Sinclairs classic "muckraking" novel The Jungle.SummarySchlosser examines the history and growth of fast food restaurants in American culture. Schlosser argues that the fast food industry wields powerful economic - and therefore political - influence on American culture, and exploits that influence to increase profits at the expense of public health and the social conditions of its workers. In the process of making that argument, however, he provides an interesting portrait of the way fast food culture is a unique product of American history, related to the emergence of the automobile, the homogenization of corporate culture, changes in labour conditions, and of course, globalization.

He also provides surprisingly respectful biographies of some of the "founding fathers" of fast food, including Carl Karcher, Ray Kroc, and others. The fast food industry, writes Schlosser, "has helped to transform not only the American diet, but also our landscape, economy, workforce, and popular culture" (3).Schlosser opens the book with the ironic delivery of a Dominos pizza to the "top secret" military base, Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. He describes various high-tech capabilities of the base and its extensive defensive system, speculating that if the worst were to happen and the entire base were entombed in the mountain, anthropologists of the future would discover random fast food wrappers scattered amongst military hardware. Both, suggests Schlosser, give important clues about the nature of American society.The book continues with an account of the evolution of fast food and how it coincided with the advent of the automobile. He explains the transformation from countless independent restaurants into a few uniform franchises. This shift led to a production-line kitchen prototype, standardization, self-service, and a change in marketing demographics: from teenager to family-oriented.

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Fast Food Nation Cast

• Ana Claudia Talancón
• Armando Hernández
• Bobby Cannavale
• Catalina Sandino Moreno
• Dakota Edwards
• Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
• Ellar Salmon
• Francisco Rosales
• Frank Ertl
• Greg Kinnear
• Juan Carlos Serrán
• Luis Guzmán
• Michael D. Conway
• Mitch Baker