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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

fast food liability lawsuits - 0 views

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fast food nation lawsuit

shared by Brian C on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
    • Vivas T
      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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Sydney C

Fast-Food Giant Ignores Rights of Workers - 3 views

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fast food nation

shared by Sydney C on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
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 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.
Ellen L

Notions for a Fast Food Nation > Facts & Fears > ACSH - 1 views

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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
Willie C

Student Research Center Ronald McDonald hops online - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation ethics america advertising

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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "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"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    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.
Emily S

Facts On File Online Databases fast food industry - 0 views

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  • Emily S on 30 Sep 11
     
    The author of this article describes the power that the fast food industry has on the general public. Their empire is so powerful that it is almost impossible to stop even by the executives of these companies. This industry has changed every aspect of human life.
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.
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. 
Zach Ramsfelder

McRage - 2 views

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fast food nation workplace safety

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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    Article about why and how the environment produces so much violent crime.
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  • Willie C on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is a good source but your annotation should include how it relates to our other books like The Jungle and how Jurgis is forced into a life of crime or the Oakies, with no money to get gas forced to steal.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    Willie what are you talking about? It's an article about McDonald's aggression and how angry customers are clowning around and causing commotion! That doesn't mention Jurgis or Joads. It just talks about how the workers, ex-workers, and even customers of the fast food industry get incited to take aggressive action. It reminded me of the chapter of FFN where it spoke of how restaurants are robbed incredibly frequently; and said robberies even result in more deaths than police-related activities. Or something along those lines.
  • Sydney C on 04 Oct 11
     
    Hahahaha calm down ^ But this is good! It's funny that fast food restaurants are the place for so much crime when they were originally meant as a safe place for families.
Vivas T

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - 0 views

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fast food nation

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  • Schlosser writes that "more than half of all American adults and about one-quarter of all American children are now obese or overweight
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This portrays the dangers of fast food restaurants due to the diseases such as "obesity" which result in eating there constantly which Schlosser clearly displays in Fast food nation
Zaji Z

McDonald's Worker Hospitalized - 0 views

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fast food nation treatment of the worker environment

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  • A 20-year-old McDonald’s employee was taken to Bayonne Medical Center
  • with “mild respiratory distress” due to inhaled bleach fumes
  • Zaji Z on 30 Sep 11
     
    Another act of ignorance on McDonald's part-- most employees are not trained to clean a flooded basement. Another question that should be raised is why allow a fast food joint to be operational when a basement is flooded and chemicals and bacteria float with all that stagnant water. Worker conditions are poor because of the poor environment the company is not so urgent on maintaining. 
  • Ben R on 04 Oct 11
     
    If any executives of these major corporations were tossed into a situation that these workers were dealing with they would not hesitate to complain and shut down the restaurant immediately. It seems the larger the corporation the more and more disconnected the upper management becomes to the people that are doing the dirty work and the people that are actually making their money
Zaji Z

McDonald's Loses Case in Worker's Crash - New York Times - 0 views

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fast food nation treatment of the worker

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  • The worker, Matthew A. Theurer, 18 years old, was killed in the accident.
  • McDonald's was negligent for letting Mr. Theurer work too many hours without rest.
  • Zaji Z on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article displays the McDonald's ignorance when it comes to their workers. In this unfortunate case, a McDonald's employee was left to work long hours without rest, falling asleep on the wheel and colliding with another vehicle, claiming the employee's life. Should a worker at this fast food joint die because he was just working for minimum wage? 
Vivas T

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - 0 views

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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.
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