Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Book report and critique.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Eric Schlosser. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001, 383 pp. Notes. $13.95. <Tab/> "This book is about fast food, the values it embodies, and the world it has made," writes Eric Schlosser in the introduction of his book, Fast Food Nation. His argument against fast food is based on the premise that "the real price never appears on the menu." The "real price," …

…the wholesale rejection of the idea of a distinctive American culture." In spite of this oversight, Schlosser has successfully proven most of his claims. Schlosser has managed to compile a mountain of evidence to support his sometimes-extreme sounding claims. His journalistic acumen and sharp insight have made the book a thoroughly enjoyable, although stomach churning, read. He has exposed "the dark side of the all-American meal." I, for one, will never again eat a hamburger.