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"In a nation where kid-targeted fast-food spots have been panned as a cause of childhood obesity, there has been much media speculation that the world's most famous spokes-clown was disappearing from McDonald's advertising"

This source does not directly take a stance on fast food but it does show how McDonalds is always updating their ad. campaigns to avoid bad publicity and continue marketing to children. This is an example of their terrible business ethics.

Discusses the author's motives behind the novel, as well as the strategies he uses to convey his points. It's a really good source that gives the background and reasons for the book. It mentions literary techniques used to write the story, analyzing the interchapters and discussing the diction and word choice used by Steinbeck. It has good analysis of multiple parts of Grapes of Wrath. This is a very useful source in part because not only does it discuss the novel, it also points out the reasons behind the writing of the novel.

This is great, I was looking for a review like this when writing the first paper.

show how people are beginning to hold fast food companies accountable and are starting to take legal action

Relating to every novel so far, it defines business. Pit the workers against each other so they don't notice that the corporations are the ones to blame. Workers get so focused fighting each other over jobs that they fail to see that it's the suppliers of the job that are manipulating them and using them.

This relates to all the novels we have read, the large amounts of workers in Cali. in GOW and the tactics of meatpacking industries to advertise the availability of more jobs than there actually are in The Jungle, for example. This allows workers to refrain from joining together, and allows the businesses to gain more power and profit as the working class continues to grow weaker.

The availibility of workers is not something that the workers themselves can control. It is, however, the main force working against them.