Friday, November 24, 2006

Fast Food Nation

An interview with the author, Eric Schlosser. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wishes to learn about the food industry in this country.
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By PR Watch
Eric Schlosser on McDonalds, Whole Foods and his new feature film
When PR Watch most recently caught a cell phone signal from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and the new Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, Schlosser was rushing from car to car in New York City, after London, which was just after Berkeley, where he was giving students a preview of the Indie film version of “Fast Food Nation.” We didn’t have the chance to ask him when he had time to eat. But we did use the time to speak with him about fast food, the U.S. childhood obesity epidemic, and the public relations industry’s techniques in attacking his work. Schlosser has been likened to a latter day Upton Sinclair—exposing the abattoirs and abuses in the meatpacking and calorie-packing processed food industry. If you haven’t read his books, you should, and here are a few reasons why you can’t just see the movie.

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