Fast_Food_Nation

Fast Food Nation In the book, Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser studies the effect that fast food has had on our nation as well as the world. He begins by recounting the birth of fast food right here in America. Schlosser comments on how fast food chains have spread to every corner of our country and are currently popping up all over the world. Schlosser goes on and gives his own point of view as to what goes on in restaurants and the affects they are having on the employees and the people who support them. Before I read this book I underestimated how big of an impact that fast food restaurants have on society. The rest of this report will show just how much of an impact that fast food chains are in our lives. To see where the concept of fast food come from we need to look at how and in what time period they started. During the late 1940’s and early 1950’s our nations history there was a new mindset know as the American Dream. The text book’s definition of the American Dream is, “ achieving the American Dream means having a secure job, owning a home, and getting food, fast, schlosser, employees, about, book, mcdonald’s, make, just, american, world, over, chains, restaurants, problem, now, nation, executives, even, dream, america, time, take, new, need, impact, idea, having, countries, class, children, being, way, society