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Evan G

In These Times 25/11 -- The Fast Food Jungle - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation

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  • The public health threat of fast food is even more serious: Many deadly new pathogens have arisen and spread as a direct result of changes in cattle and poultry growing, meatpacking and food preparation spurred by the rise of fast food.
  • Everyone knows that fast food jobs suck. They're greasy, low-paid, short-term, unskilled and without benefits, and among teen-agers, who fill nearly all of them, they're not even cool
  • In addition to its restaurants, McDonald's exerts near-total control over the production of commodities of which it is among the largest buyers: beef, potatoes, pork and poultry.
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  • Fast food workers rarely have benefits of any sort, and typically turn over at several hundred percent each year. And they are never, ever unionized. In addition to being low-paid and transient, fast food work is dangerous: the rate of injury in fast food jobs is among the highest of any job category.
  • But if that weren't bad enough, fast food workers are now more likely to be murdered on the job (four to five per month) than are police,
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Another excellent site commentating on Fast Food Nation. Honestly, I fail to see the point of searching for most of these commentaries. Nearly none of these sites about the novels say anything explicitly new or interesting which the novels did not. They're just encapsulations of the same thing. After the class puts this together, we will have hundreds of summaries of the same dumb novels.
Brian C

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fast food nation lawsuit

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  • Americans spend more money on fast food than on books, movies, videos, records and magazines combined - more than $110 billion in 2000
  • Last July, he filed a class action lawsuit claiming that the fast food industry failed to inform consumers that its products are high in fat, salt, sugar and cholesterol and failed to warn consumers that these ingredients are dangerous to their health.
  • nother class action suit against the fast food industry was filed on behalf of teenaged plaintiffs. This suit claimed that the fast food industry unfairly targets children with toy promotions and child- friendly advertising so as to addict children to fast food at an early age.
  • Brian C on 30 Sep 11
     
    show how people are beginning to hold fast food companies accountable and are starting to take legal action
Vivas T

'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser - All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books - TIME - 1 views

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fast food nation

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  • When Eric Schlosser came out with Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal in 2001, it was hailed as a modern-day Jungle, and with good reason.
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article portrays not only the similarity between modern day working conditions of workers to those in the early 1900s, but it also illustrates the "declining power of labor unions" which illustrates the power of companies strengthening and unfairly taking advantage of these workers.
  • Schlosser did far more, connecting the rise and consolidation of the fast-food industry in America to the declining power of labor unions, sliding blue-collar wages and growing income inequality.
  • "The basic thinking behind fast food has become the operating system of today's retail economy
  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article describes FFN as a modern day Jungle, but continues by saying that it is more that just 'muckraking.' Rather, Schlosser exposes the motives behind large businesses and how they effect unionization and social equality.
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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    "I aimed for the public's heart," wrote Upton Sinclair, referring to his muckraking hit The Jungle, "and by accident, I hit it in the stomach."
  • Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article portrays not only the similarity between modern day working conditions of workers to those in the early 1900s, but it also illustrates the "declining power of labor unions" which illustrates the power of companies strengthening and unfairly taking advantage of these workers.
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Fast Food Nation was acclaimed a modern day version of The Jungle when first published. However, this article shows that it was more than your average muckracking novel. It explains that the power of unions fell as the "Fast Food Nation" rose. Also, Schlosser's piece explained the widening social gap of Americans, as the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.
Brian C

effect of the jungle linked to fast food nation - 1 views

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jungle fast food nation meat packing america treatment of worker

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  • As deregulation diminished governmental standards and inspection, managers have ratcheted up line speeds, increasing the splattering of fecal and stomach matter and spreading food-borne illnesses like E. coli. This deadly threat, described by journalist Eric Schlosser in his popular book Fast Food Nation, is microbial and invisible, but every bit as much a consequence of profit maximization as the unwholesome practices exposed by Sinclair a century ago. If there is a silver lining, it is that this time around the interests of labour and consumers cannot be easily divided. Speed-up and unsanitary working conditions — two critical issues for meat-packing workers — are directly linked to consumers' health concerns.
  • This deadly threat, described by journalist Eric Schlosser in his popular book Fast Food Nation, is microbial and invisible, but every bit as much a consequence of profit maximization as the unwholesome practices exposed by Sinclair a century ago. If there is a silver lining, it is that this time around the interests of labour and consumers cannot be easily divided. Speed-up and unsanitary working conditions — two critical issues for meat-packing workers — are directly linked to consumers' health concerns.
  • Brian C on 30 Sep 11
     
    shows sinclairs unintended effect on the meatpacking industry, and how fast food nation reinforced this criticism of it
Sarah Sch

Science Reference Center: Is fast food fat food - 2 views

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  •    Pizza has its pitfalls also, ranging from 9 to 40 grams of fat per slice depending on the toppings you choose. While sausage pizza is a source of protein, calcium, and complex carbohydrates, just two slices give you more fat than you should have all day.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article stresses the poor nutrition of fast food, especially the fat content of food items. The above excerpt demonstrates the excessive fat in food traditionally not high in fat content. Two slices of pizza can contain the total amount of fat in a daily diet for a typical person. This source reinforces the hazards of a fast food diet which was brought to light in "Fast Food Nation". ps. If you visit the source, try the british accent voice reading.
  • Ellen L on 03 Oct 11
     
    First of all, good nutrition quote! Thats really disgusting. I think that beyond just relating to the food produced in FFN, it also correlates to the diet presented in N&D, as well as the food being produced in The Jungle (the unknown canned stuff that they say is mostly fat and scrapes). Second, I appreciated the recommendation of listening to the source in a British accent.
Emily S

Exploitation of fast food addiction - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    The powerful fast food industry takes advantage of their obese and addicted clinetel. Fast food has proven to be an addiction. Fast food manipulate their customers like a drug-dealer to a drug add it.
Sarah Sch

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fast food nation america

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "But quality would appear to have lost out to other considerations. The main effort went into making the food easily handled and cheap."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "The need to supply the rapidly expanding cities of the early nineteenth century made more room for food adulteration."
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    The article discusses the evolution of food into processed food for convenience. The article gives historical background to "Fast Food Nation's" setting. The article also devotes a section to fast food and its preparation. The article lends support to the notion of convenience leading to low quality and poor nutrition.
Willie C

Fast Food Nation - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics america

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    " fast-food restaurants rely heavily on the services of the billion-dollar flavor industry, which manufactures and sells the complex chemicals that give distinctive flavors to processed foods such as "smoky" chicken, "strawberry" shakes and even 'flame-broiled' burgers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source examines the important points that Schlosser brings up in his book Fast Food Nation.
Zaji Z

Abuses Against Workers Taint U.S. Meat and Poultry | Human Rights Watch - 2 views

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fast food nation the jungle ethics treatment of the worker

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  • In meat and poultry plants across the United States, Human Rights Watch found that many workers face a real danger of losing a limb, or even their lives, in unsafe work conditions.
  • “A century after Upton Sinclair wrote ‘The Jungle,’ workers in the meatpacking industry still face serious injuries,” said Jamie Fellner, director of the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch.
  • “When workers try to defend themselves by forming unions, employers use fear and intimidation to stop them,”
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  • “The meatpacking companies hire immigrant workers because they are often the only ones who will work under such terrible conditions,”
  • Zaji Z on 01 Oct 11
     
    Reports are out: modern day meatpacking is still considered to be one imposing extreme hazard to the worker. This is only one of the many modern instances of ethical injustice as employers continue to intimidate their workers from creating unions, as described with Fast Food Nation and McDonald's. It is a marriage of Sinclair's eye-opening description of the meatpacking industry and Schlosser's depiction of contemporary business ethics. 
  • Willie C on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is a great source and annotation showing how the horrors of the meatpacking industry first brought up in the Jungle, and later in Fast Food Nation are still going on today. The terrible ethics of these big businesses are still a problem to this day.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    You guys bring up valid points. Honestly it gets frustrating hearing the same topic being incessantly repeated, but it still is a good source about these novels and the poor treatment of the workers. I like how your second quote even relates it to modern times, just like FFN
Willie C

Fast Food History and Perspective - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation business ethics treatment of the worker

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "high-pressure marketing promotes junk food that makes everyone fat, resulting from the heartless unloading of unskilled and dangerous work on youthful racial minorities"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article catalogs the evolution of how we eat, and included inside is fast food. This shows how fast food is unhealthy and the corporate companies don't care about anything but money, and the food is not what we think it is.
Connor P

Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: FAST FOOD NATION (Book Review) - 0 views

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#4 fast food nation poor treatment workers consumers

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  • While cataloguing assorted evils with the tenacity and sharp eye of the best investigative journalist, he uncovers a cynical, dismissive attitude to food safety in the fast food industry and widespread circumvention of the government's efforts at regulation
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source shows the the government does not care about its food safety thus leading to the endangered lives of the workers and consumers. The government shows it evils by aiming for profits rather than helping the workers
  • Ben R on 04 Oct 11
     
    I completely agree with what you are saying connor. It seems to be a consumer trying to better our eating standards is a losing battle, when you have some of the most powerful corporations and influential companies cooperating with the government it seems that there is now way to win even a marginal victory.
Willie C

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics america poor

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli ... or it's more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald's than to cook a healthy meal for them at home"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This is an interesting article proving that eating real food can actually be cheaper than fast food. This works well to explain how fast food has become a staple ingredient in many Americans weekly and even daily diet.
Vivas T

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poor fast food nation nickel and dimed worker conditions

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  • In her book on the working poor, Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich describes this housing process: Unable to afford housing with a kitchen, the worker cannot purchase foods to prepare in bulk and cannot store or freeze these foods. Such workers are sometimes entirely dependent on meals they can purchase and eat immediately, such as fast-food
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      Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
       
      This article portrays the harsh conditions of the low class worker because these workers are "unable to afford housing with a kitchen", similar to Barbara in N and D, which leads to a connection to FFN because due to these low class workers, fast food chains thrive and are able to prosper the the distribution of cheap food in great quantities.
  • Sydney C on 04 Oct 11
     
    I can't even imagine not being able to afford a house with a kitchen. This really puts a new perspective on things, and adds to the sympathy felt for all the low wage workers.
Sydney C

Fast-Food Giant Ignores Rights of Workers - 3 views

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fast food nation

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  • ncreasingly, according to Oxfam, today's globalized economy is characterized by powerful corporations at the top of the product supply chain. "These massive, highly consolidated and vertically-integrated corporations are able to extract value from the supply chain by squeezing costs and offloading responsibility onto those below them--their shippers and suppliers." Suppliers, in turn, try to extract greater value from producers, while producers--with very few variable costs they can cut--"squeeze their labor force," resulting in declining wages and deteriorating work and living conditions
  • roblem, however, is that the company puts the obligation for monitoring and enforcing the code on its suppliers, rather than on itself--yet another example of the corporation at the top of the chain sloughing off responsibilities onto a lower link to avoid additional costs for itself.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Talks about the corporate strategies to thrive and prosper. The CEOS just want money, so they force the suppliers to make more money. The suppliers have to live up to these standards, so they in turn squeeze the workers out, milking unnecessarily large profits where they could have shared with the worker and still done reasonable well.
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  • Travis F on 30 Sep 11
     
    "The vow is admirable, according to Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, who, however, noted in a recent article that Yum! apparently gives higher priority to its responsibility for ensuring the welfare of the animals whose meat it buys than for that of the farm workers who pick the 40 million pounds of tomatoes it buys each year."
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Didn't realize that people already used this source.
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The businesses behind farms that provide for fast food companies are under scrutiny for not treating their (mostly immigrant) workers with respect and fairness. They are also buying out smaller farms, and removing a whole class of people from the system.
David D

The Chain Never Stops - 2 views

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fast food nation ethics treatment of the worker

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  • The meatpacking industry not only has the highest injury rate, but also has by far the highest rate of serious injury—more than five times the national average, as measured in lost workdays
  • The meatpacking industry has a well-documented history of discouraging injury reports, falsifying injury data, and putting injured workers back on the job quickly to minimize the reporting of lost workdays
  • The typical plant now hires an entirely new workforce every year or so.
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  • In a relatively brief period of time, the meatpacking industry also became highly centralized and concentrated, giving enormous power to a few large agribusiness firms.
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    This whole site talks about awful treatment of the workers in packing industries. It's a lot like Fast Food Nation and the Jungle, because it gives both specific stories and overall points about the dangers that the workers face, and how little the companies care about such dangers.
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article is one that describes the depressing plight of Kenny Dobbins, a worker at the Monfort/ Con-Agra Beef Plant in Greeley, Colorado. A hard working and loyal worker, Dobbins suffered injuries, saved lives, and broke strikes during his years, only to be rewarded by getting fired after suffering a heart attack and seeking compensation. A recurring theme seen in Fast Food Nation and The Jungle was that profits are the only concern for businessmen, as the worker is indespensable and replaceable.
Ellen L

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Fast Food Nation the jungle

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  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    "These books catapulted food into the mainstream of modern culture and advocacy for social change, and opened doors for scholars as well as journalists to write about the political, commercial, and health aspects of food in modern society."
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    Food professor Marion Nestle discusses the social effects of FFN, as well as two other modern books, and the way they change how Americans view food. This topic is also related back to The Jungle, and it's seemingly ancient, yet undeniably relatable effects on the American food process.
Evan G

A review Fast Food Nation | Grist - 2 views

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Fast Food Nation

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  • Turnover is huge, and the companies profit from it: Short-term workers accrue few benefits and are less likely to organize. Schlosser recounts how McDonald's and its ilk have fought against unions, sometimes closing stores to prevent workers from unionizing.
  • . Three companies grow and process about 80 percent of all French fries now served by fast food chains
  • The meat-processing industry and restaurant chains continually lobby against regulations that would improve worker and food safety
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Gives a brief summary of all of Schlosser's complaints in FFN, while whining about the meat industries and their expansion, development, tactics, and industrialization. 
Vivas T

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fast food nation ethics

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  • Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal maintains that the enormous growth of the fast-food industry has caused conditions in the big slaughterhouses to pose serious health concerns
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article displays the lack of ethics that businesses such as meatpacking industries posses due to the "serious health concerns" that their food possesses. In addition, this also, ironically,relates to the Jungle which depicts the lack of progress in sanitizing slaughterhouses in the past 100 years.
Ellen L

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Fast Food Nation

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  • Ellen L on 28 Sep 11
     
    Commentary on Fast Food Nation, book and movie. Here Schlosser speculates on how to solve the problems presented in the novel, and whether or not change is possible
Vivas T

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fast food nation

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  • Companies with brands associated with the salmonellosis outbreak recalled all potentially contaminated products, including peanut butter for home use and commercial peanut butter products used by some fast-food chains. The Salmonella-contaminated foods associated with outbreak affected approximately 370 people in over 40 states
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This illustrates the possible dangers in fast food in today's society through diseases such as E. coli. This example, depicts the irony of recalls, that Schlosser depicts, through the fact that 370 people were already contaminated before the recall.
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