1. the founding fathers 2. your trusted friends 3. behind the counter 4. success 5. why the fries taste good 6. on the range 7. cogs in the great machine 8. the most dangerous job 9. whats in the meat 10. global realization
Author’s goal:
The author is trying to say that people are responsible for their own choices. He is pointing out that while the fast food industry is there, no one is shoving the bad food into peoples' mouths. They are "in charge" of their own bodies and what they choose to eat. The other message is one about advertising. The fast food industry will talk about the "healthy white chicken meat", yet leave out the part about the greasy fatty deep fried mung on the outside. The author is warning us not to be stupid and be taken in by ads designed to show only what will attract us.
Analysis:
Chapter 1:
This book was written by Eric Schlosser. The first chapter starts off with a discussion by Carl N. Karcher who is one of the many fast food founding fathers. He told how about how when he was twenty years old, his uncle offered him a job working in a store in Anaheim, CA. He then moved out to California which is where he met his future wife Margaret and they began their own family together. Margaret was also in the food industry. She had a hotdog cart across the street from a Goodyear factory and Carl was working at a bakery.
prediction:
i predict thats they will tell me more about the fast food companies. i do know that the second chapter is called "your trusted friends". when they say this i feel like they are talking about how fast food has almost became a sercurity blanket for some, safety.
Chapter 2:
In chapter two it discusses how mcdonalods and many other fast food companies start to decieve young children by offering them a playful toy. This will cause them to beg and plead to their parents to take them to these places. They are the ultimate desicion makers.The workers are not paid fairly. Mcdonalds, being one of many, is a very popular food choice for busy people. Therefor, many people go and pay for their cheap, fastly delivered food. You would think that the workers would get paid more than they do because of how much profit these fast food companies make. But, most employees only get payed minimum wage because the food is so cheap and the labor is not extensive.
prediction:
In the next chapter i predict that it will talk about the strategies that companies use to get their emloyees. Chapter 3:
In this chapter they explain how companies entice teenagers to work at their resteraunts. Teens see this as an easy job that pays for the little things they want such as clothes, video games and other status orianted items. in 1999, there was a conferance where burger king, mcdonalds, taco bell, pizza hut and KFC all met up to discuss employee training, computerization, and other things like the newest kitchen technology. heres a fact: about 3.7 million people worldwide operate about 60,000 restaurants, and open a new fast food restaurant every two hours.
prediction:
the next chapter is titled success and i think the name pretty much describes itself.
Chapter 4:
In this chapter, the author talks about the risky buisness of fast food franchise. You have to spend alot of money to start your buisness but it doesnt always work out the way you want it to. Did you know that 38.1 percent of new buisness franchises have failed. That was stated in 1998. There have been many conflicts between franchises and franchisors.
Prediction:
my prediction for chapter 5 is that they will talk about the unknown ingredients in fries as well as the rest of the food
. Chapter 5:
in chapter five they reveal the hidden reasons to why their fries are so addicting. it is all about the oil they are cooked in. fun fact: mcdonalds french fries used 93 precent beef tallow which gave the fries more saturated fat than the hamburgers even had. as for their chicken nuggets they are conventional but taste pretty good. another fun fact is that 25 percent of american adults visit some fast food restuarant in a day.
prediction:
the title of chapter 6 is "on the range". in this chapter i bet that they are going to explain the procedure of how they get their meats. Chapter 6:
"On the range" is about how meatpaking plants slaughter 84 precent of the nations cattle and use unfair tatics to bring down the prices and so their competive market decreases. Poultry growers' lives are changed drasticaly. About one half chicken growers leave the bussiness after just three years because they virtually become powerless and trapped my dept. In the past couple of years the money is being sharred and are becoming corrupt.
predictions:
i dont know what "cogs in a great machine" really means. so im interested in reading about this chapter. im guessing it has something to do with the way the fast food companies create their foods.
Chapter 7:
when this chapter first started it talked about Greeley, Colorado and about how it was a big factory city. the poposterous smell was over welming to new comers but as for the people who lived there they have just ajusted to it. sorta like how new yorkers ajust to the busy streets. its filled with veil smell of dead and alive animals, and manure on a daily basis. the people who live their often get headaches, nausea, and loss of sleep! people have to deal with risk of sickness and disease due to the animals. most workers still only get paid minimum wage.
prediction: i think this next chapter will be about the dangers of working as an animal slaughterer
Chapter 8:
Working in a slaughter house can be an extremely dangerous job. Every year more than 1/4 of the meatpacking workers are injured or receive an illness that is beyond first aid. The most common injury is when you get accidentally stabbed by the worker next to you. This causes trauma for the workers. Also, this job can cause back and shoulder problums and carpal tunnel syndrome. Most people would only take this job because they are desperate for the money.
Prediction:i predict that the next chapter will be about the unknown ingredients in the meat they use. Chapter 9:
The meat they use in fast food resteraunts is usually very unsafe to eat. The process they use to get the meat is cheap but not sanitary or healthy. Most of the animals they get the meat from are diseased. These animals are so unhealthy because of the poor condition they live in. The cows, chickens and pigs are raised in unsafe, dirty enviorments that are packed tight. They are given hormones to make them grow faster and bigger therefor, they have more meat. These fake hormones are not meant to be in animal bodies let alone human bodies. Tons people get food poisening from eating this meat.
prediction: i think this chapter will be about how people should and are beginning to realize how unhealthy America is becoming because of these fast food franchises. Chapter 10:
the "mcworld" is starting to take over! coca cola has been around since 1886, thats 124 years. mcdonalds on the other hand has been around for 54 years... thats since 1956. mcdonlads is more reconized in the world than cola cola and theres a 70 year difference. It hasnt always been like this though. mcdonalds started out only popular in the united states. now, its spreading through out the world. Everyone is becoming like Americans, unhealthy and fat.
Muckraking theme connection:
In the book Fast food nation, muckraking comes out very often. In case you didn’t know what muckraking means, the definition is “to search for and expose misconducuct in public life.” So with that being said, Eric Schosser basically throws all of these fast food restuarunts under the bus! Schlosser finds a way to explain all of the steps to these companies procedures. And the ways that they trick all of us Americans into eating their unhealthy, fat filled, and greesy food. He goes all around Colorado and interviews a lot of different people who take part in this business. Over three decades he has been telling people in his columns that “fast food has been infiltrated ever nook and cranny of American society…in 1970 americans spent about $6 billion in fast food; in 2000 they spent more than $110 billion.” Fast food is taken for grated because it is easy accses. Even though this food is fast, cheap and it taste good its not too late to stop and think about what your eating. Its not too late to take control of your diet and change.
Written by: Eric Schlosser
Plot:
1. the founding fathers
2. your trusted friends
3. behind the counter
4. success
5. why the fries taste good
6. on the range
7. cogs in the great machine
8. the most dangerous job
9. whats in the meat
10. global realization
Author’s goal:
The author is trying to say that people are responsible for their own choices. He is pointing out that while the fast food industry is there, no one is shoving the bad food into peoples' mouths. They are "in charge" of their own bodies and what they choose to eat. The other message is one about advertising. The fast food industry will talk about the "healthy white chicken meat", yet leave out the part about the greasy fatty deep fried mung on the outside. The author is warning us not to be stupid and be taken in by ads designed to show only what will attract us.
Analysis:
Chapter 1:
This book was written by Eric Schlosser. The first chapter starts off with a discussion by Carl N. Karcher who is one of the many fast food founding fathers. He told how about how when he was twenty years old, his uncle offered him a job working in a store in Anaheim, CA. He then moved out to California which is where he met his future wife Margaret and they began their own family together. Margaret was also in the food industry. She had a hotdog cart across the street from a Goodyear factory and Carl was working at a bakery.
prediction:
i predict thats they will tell me more about the fast food companies. i do know that the second chapter is called "your trusted friends". when they say this i feel like they are talking about how fast food has almost became a sercurity blanket for some, safety.
Chapter 2:
In chapter two it discusses how mcdonalods and many other fast food companies start to decieve young children by offering them a playful toy. This will cause them to beg and plead to their parents to take them to these places. They are the ultimate desicion makers.The workers are not paid fairly. Mcdonalds, being one of many, is a very popular food choice for busy people. Therefor, many people go and pay for their cheap, fastly delivered food. You would think that the workers would get paid more than they do because of how much profit these fast food companies make. But, most employees only get payed minimum wage because the food is so cheap and the labor is not extensive.
prediction:
In the next chapter i predict that it will talk about the strategies that companies use to get their emloyees.Chapter 3:
In this chapter they explain how companies entice teenagers to work at their resteraunts. Teens see this as an easy job that pays for the little things they want such as clothes, video games and other status orianted items. in 1999, there was a conferance where burger king, mcdonalds, taco bell, pizza hut and KFC all met up to discuss employee training, computerization, and other things like the newest kitchen technology. heres a fact: about 3.7 million people worldwide operate about 60,000 restaurants, and open a new fast food restaurant every two hours.
prediction:
the next chapter is titled success and i think the name pretty much describes itself.Chapter 4:
In this chapter, the author talks about the risky buisness of fast food franchise. You have to spend alot of money to start your buisness but it doesnt always work out the way you want it to. Did you know that 38.1 percent of new buisness franchises have failed. That was stated in 1998. There have been many conflicts between franchises and franchisors.
Prediction:
my prediction for chapter 5 is that they will talk about the unknown ingredients in fries as well as the rest of the food.
Chapter 5:
in chapter five they reveal the hidden reasons to why their fries are so addicting. it is all about the oil they are cooked in. fun fact: mcdonalds french fries used 93 precent beef tallow which gave the fries more saturated fat than the hamburgers even had. as for their chicken nuggets they are conventional but taste pretty good. another fun fact is that 25 percent of american adults visit some fast food restuarant in a day.
prediction:
the title of chapter 6 is "on the range". in this chapter i bet that they are going to explain the procedure of how they get their meats.Chapter 6:
"On the range" is about how meatpaking plants slaughter 84 precent of the nations cattle and use unfair tatics to bring down the prices and so their competive market decreases. Poultry growers' lives are changed drasticaly. About one half chicken growers leave the bussiness after just three years because they virtually become powerless and trapped my dept. In the past couple of years the money is being sharred and are becoming corrupt.
predictions:
i dont know what "cogs in a great machine" really means. so im interested in reading about this chapter. im guessing it has something to do with the way the fast food companies create their foods.Chapter 7:
when this chapter first started it talked about Greeley, Colorado and about how it was a big factory city. the poposterous smell was over welming to new comers but as for the people who lived there they have just ajusted to it. sorta like how new yorkers ajust to the busy streets. its filled with veil smell of dead and alive animals, and manure on a daily basis. the people who live their often get headaches, nausea, and loss of sleep! people have to deal with risk of sickness and disease due to the animals. most workers still only get paid minimum wage.
prediction: i think this next chapter will be about the dangers of working as an animal slaughterer
Chapter 8:
Working in a slaughter house can be an extremely dangerous job. Every year more than 1/4 of the meatpacking workers are injured or receive an illness that is beyond first aid. The most common injury is when you get accidentally stabbed by the worker next to you. This causes trauma for the workers. Also, this job can cause back and shoulder problums and carpal tunnel syndrome. Most people would only take this job because they are desperate for the money.
Prediction:i predict that the next chapter will be about the unknown ingredients in the meat they use.
Chapter 9:
The meat they use in fast food resteraunts is usually very unsafe to eat. The process they use to get the meat is cheap but not sanitary or healthy. Most of the animals they get the meat from are diseased. These animals are so unhealthy because of the poor condition they live in. The cows, chickens and pigs are raised in unsafe, dirty enviorments that are packed tight. They are given hormones to make them grow faster and bigger therefor, they have more meat. These fake hormones are not meant to be in animal bodies let alone human bodies. Tons people get food poisening from eating this meat.
prediction: i think this chapter will be about how people should and are beginning to realize how unhealthy America is becoming because of these fast food franchises.
Chapter 10:
the "mcworld" is starting to take over! coca cola has been around since 1886, thats 124 years. mcdonalds on the other hand has been around for 54 years... thats since 1956. mcdonlads is more reconized in the world than cola cola and theres a 70 year difference. It hasnt always been like this though. mcdonalds started out only popular in the united states. now, its spreading through out the world. Everyone is becoming like Americans, unhealthy and fat.
Muckraking theme connection:
In the book Fast food nation, muckraking comes out very often. In case you didn’t know what muckraking means, the definition is “to search for and expose misconducuct in public life.” So with that being said, Eric Schosser basically throws all of these fast food restuarunts under the bus! Schlosser finds a way to explain all of the steps to these companies procedures. And the ways that they trick all of us Americans into eating their unhealthy, fat filled, and greesy food. He goes all around Colorado and interviews a lot of different people who take part in this business. Over three decades he has been telling people in his columns that “fast food has been infiltrated ever nook and cranny of American society…in 1970 americans spent about $6 billion in fast food; in 2000 they spent more than $110 billion.” Fast food is taken for grated because it is easy accses. Even though this food is fast, cheap and it taste good its not too late to stop and think about what your eating. Its not too late to take control of your diet and change.