Sharyl's review of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Sharyl reviewed Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2005)

To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story …

Review of 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

There is an amazing amount of information in this book, all very eye-opening. It MAY put you off your feed--just a warning, towards the end, especially. Schlosser mentions Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle quite a bit during the chapters about meatpacking. I haven't read it, but certainly will.

If I'd have underlined everything I'd wanted to remember, the whole book would be marked up--it's all absorbing stuff. (The book is unscathed--resisted the temptation) The link below mentions ConAgra's Greeley Plant, one of the subjects of Schlosser's research.