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Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

Are we what we eat?

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Freakonomics Radio

It was mentioned as a book that made the speaker very hungry, even though it discussed fast food and its negative aspects.

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I did read that book fast food nation. It made me very very hungry.

— Episode: 230. The Cheeseburger Diet

Episode: 230. The Cheeseburger Diet

It was mentioned as a book that made the speaker very hungry, even though it discussed fast food and its negative aspects.

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I did read that book fast food nation. It made me very very hungry.

Fresh Air

Podcast

Fresh Air

Schlosser's book examined the rise of fastfood culture and its social, health, and economic impacts on America.

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Schlosser has written several books, including Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Command and Control.

— Episode: Best Of: Michael McDonald / The American...

Episode: Best Of: Michael McDonald / The American 'Food Car...

Schlosser's book examined the rise of fastfood culture and its social, health, and economic impacts on America.

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Schlosser has written several books, including Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Command and Control.

One of the reasons I wrote Fast Food Nation 20whatever years ago and why I've been involved in these two documentaries is the food industry is the most important industry.

Episode: Our Fragile Food System

The book was mentioned as one of Eric Schlosser's writings about the food industry, which preceded the discussion on corporate consolidation and its impacts.

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Schlosser has written several books including Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Command and Control.

I just wanted to talk for a second about the minimum wage because that's really what brought me into the food world. The first thing I wrote about food was about migrant farm workers in California and how they were being exploited.

This is the most important, one of the reasons I wrote Fast Food Nation 20 whatever years ago and why I've been involved in these two documentaries is the food industry is the most important industry.

When I was doing the research for Fast Food Nation, decades ago, I visited a flavor factory in New Jersey where they were manufacturing.

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

It was highly recommended for its insightful look into the fast food industry, specifically its negative aspects, and was even used as a college textbook.

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So that book is Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by an author named Eric Schlosser.

— Episode: Fast Food Conspiracies, Part 1: The Rise...

Episode: Fast Food Conspiracies, Part 1: The Rise of Mass P...

It was highly recommended for its insightful look into the fast food industry, specifically its negative aspects, and was even used as a college textbook.

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So that book is Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by an author named Eric Schlosser.

Highly recommend it.

it's been used as a textbook in colleges

Episode: Fast Food Conspiracies, Part 1: The Rise of Mass P...

It was highly recommended and mentioned as having been used as a college textbook, potentially leading to inexpensive copies being available.

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So that book is Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by an author named Eric Schlosser.

Highly recommend it.

You should be able, it's been used as a textbook in colleges which, why am I bringing that up?

That means that there are gonna be a lot of very inexpensive copies of that book because a lot of people just got rid of it when they were done with school.

Episode: Fast Food Conspiracies, Part 1: The Rise of Mass P...

It was recommended due to its content on the fast food industry, and because it was previously used as a college textbook, making it easy to find inexpensive copies.

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So that book is Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by an author named Eric Schlosser.

Highly recommend it.

You should be able, it's been used as a textbook in colleges which, why am I bringing that up?

That means that there are gonna be a lot of very inexpensive copies of that book because a lot of people just got rid of it when they were done with school.

Chasing Life

Professor Gardner mentioned 'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser as one of the popular books they used in his class. He explained that the students were prompted to change their diets due to the societal impacts of food choices, not for health reasons.

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And we're not even gonna find scientific papers. We're gonna find popular books by Michael Pollan and Marian Nestle and Eric Schlosser and Jonathan Safran Foer and have them, it's gonna be a discussio...

— Episode: Do Diets Really Work?

Episode: Do Diets Really Work?

Professor Gardner mentioned 'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser as one of the popular books they used in his class. He explained that the students were prompted to change their diets due to the societal impacts of food choices, not for health reasons.

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And we're not even gonna find scientific papers. We're gonna find popular books by Michael Pollan and Marian Nestle and Eric Schlosser and Jonathan Safran Foer and have them, it's gonna be a discussion-based class.

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