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Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and food writer. He is known for his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).
Rolling Stone asked Schlosser to write an article looking at America through fast food in 1997 after reading his article on migrants in Atlantic Monthly. [4] [5] He then spent nearly three years researching the fast-food industry, from the slaughterhouses and packing plants that turn out the burgers to the minimum-wage workers who cook them to the television commercials that entice children to ...
The working conditions in the fast food industry have recently been under harsh criticism, thanks to workers' walkouts and protests in New York and most recently in Chicago on Wednesday.
Fast Food Nation is a 2006 mockumentary political satire black comedy film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Linklater and Eric Schlosser. The film, an international co-production of the United States and the United Kingdom, is loosely based on Schlosser's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book Fast Food Nation .
Fast food lobbyists say the higher California minimum wage law led to a loss of nearly 10,000 jobs. The claim is baseless. The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing ...
Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner [1] and narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It examines corporate farming in the United States , concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees.
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Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN 0-06-083858-2. Schultz, Howard and Yang, Dori Jones. Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. Hyperion, 1997. ISBN 0-7868-6315-3