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FFN
Eric Schlosser
Chapter 4

Fast food is one of the most successful businesses to get into. I have found out that fast food franchisees abuse government subsidized programs.

""Of the 755 new Subways opened that year, 109 relied upon the U.S. government for financing."

It's fucking disgusting that fast food corporations can abuse a program that was started to help small business owners. They're ruining America

Chapter 5

French fries are one of the biggest hits in America, and have been since flash freezing became popular. They taste so good because they are subtly flavored with beef flavoring.

"Toward the end of the list is a seemingly innocuous, yet oddly mysterious phrase: "natural flavor." "

That's disgusting, to think that french fries are flavored with, meat. Plenty of vegetarians find it okay to eat McDonald's french fries, they should seriously reconsider their thoughts.

KFC 2

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Chapter 3. FFN

Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation Chapter 3

Fast food restaurants cut costs through labor. Being employed at a fast food restaurant isn't the nicest job.

Gem: Turnovers are more common in fast food than any other industry

It's really interesting to see that kids like working at McDonald's and places like that. It's also funny that about 2/3 of fast food robberies are committed by employees or ex-employees.  

**It's really sad that auto check on a computer knows the correct way to spell McDonald's 

KFC

They may not be as cute as little puppies, but they're still living breathing animals, and they still feel pain.

"KFC lets frustrated factory-farm and slaughterhouse workers handle live birds, so many of the animals end up being sadistically abused. At a KFC “Supplier of the Year” slaughterhouse in West Virginia, workers were documented tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco into their eyes, spray-painting their faces, and violently stomping on them. This was discovered more than two years after KFC promised PETA that it was taking animal welfare seriously."


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HW 7 - Reading Response Monday

Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation. Introduction

Fast food plays a huge role in our society, and throughout this book, I will go into depth on the positives and negatives of it's impact. I think fast food can be considered a main representative of America.

"Hundreds of millions of people buy fast food every day without giving it much thought, unaware of the subtle and not so subtle ramifications of their purchases."

This book is going to be interesting and might possibly change my eating of fast food, but I doubt it will heavily impact my life.

Chapter 1

McDonald's started a trend, and many followed. Among those who followed are some of the biggest names in the fast food.

"Entrepreneurs from all over the country went to San Bernardino, visited the new McDonald's and built imitations of the restaurant in their hometowns."

It's extremely interesting to see where all of the companies we know so well came from. I now realize why McDonald's is the best. Because it was the first. 

Chapter 2

McDonald's employees are taught a certain way, to do certain things, in order to uphold the McDonald's image.

Market towards kids. 

"...there was something trippy about Ronald McDonald..."

Corporations feed on youthful ignorance. Cigarettes. Fast Food. Clothes. You name it.

HW 6 - Food Diary

Over the course of forty eight hours, I consumed 2,258 calories. The average is 2000  a day.

The first day, as usual I didn't eat breakfast. At lunch I ate a Subway footlong BLT sandwich, which is the only thing I will eat from Subway. An establishment that I consider slightly better than most other fast food "restaurants". That was a usual experience, nothing exotic or unusual. It was bland for the most part, but good enough to satisfy. Then that night I had three slices of plain Dominoes pizza, which I find absolutely revolting. I mean, it doesn't even look like real pizza. 

After eating that I felt nauseous, and didn't eat anything for the night. It just doesn't feel right in your mouth. It's kind of like miracle whip to mayonnaise. You're eating something that is trying to be like the original, but in the end is totally something different and is made of god knows what. Dominoes' is a lot like that, it's supposed to be pizza, but being from New York, I know what pizza is. Dominoes is not pizza. It is something else altogether. 

The second day, I skipped breakfast, again. I never eat breakfast, because I always feel sick in the morning. So for lunch that day, I had a plain toasted bagel with cream cheese, a food that I love. It was very satisfying and it just tastes great. That night I had a cheese burger with mushroom and fries and onion rings. I ended up only eating the fries and onion rings. I can only eat beef if it's near burned, I can't stand the taste or the sight of pink meant, or anything less than extremely well done. And it was medium rare. Ugh.

I hate looking at pictures of meat, it makes me feel sick, I dont know why, but for some reason it does. 

I now realize that everything I ate was pretty unhealthy, minus the bagel.