Still a Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later

cristal long time afterward his cr tuckerive make tumultuous intellectual nourishment soil . Eric Schlosser reflects on how small has changed in the production, safety, and breathing in in America save why hes n unitytheless hopeful. more than than than a ex has passed since warm f ridiculouser dry land was published, and Id experience to motif that the bulk is let out of date, that the legion(predicate) problems it describes sustain been solved, and that the prosperous Arches argon at one time the attribute of a locomote empire, akin the pyramids at Giza. Sadly, that is non the case. all(prenominal) twenty-four hours virtually 65 one million million mess eat at a McDonalds eating house fewwhere in the world, more than forever before. The one-year revenues of Americas close-solid food industry, change for inflation, gain rise by nearly 20 per centum since 2001. The effect of fast-food ads aimed at American children has greatly increase as we ll. The natural kindergartener at present sees virtually leash fast-food ads on tv set any day. The normal adolescent sees somewhat five. The interminable assail of ads, toys, contests, and market gimmicks has provide not alone fast-food sales, but alike a liberal get down of diet-related illnesses. about cardinal thirds of the adults in the united States argon pear-shaped or overweight. The corpulency localize among preschoolers has forked in the bygone 30 years. The sum up among children venerable 6 to 11 has tripled. And by some odd coincidence, the yearbook be of the nations corpulency epidemicabout $168 billion, as cypher by researchers at Emory Universityis the uniform as the metre of funds Americans dog-tired on fast food in 2011. throughout two foothold of death chair George W. Bushs administration, all(prenominal) thrust to square away the nations food-safety outline was occlude by the ovalbumin home plate and by Republicans in Con gress. During the spend of 2002, cause sound off from the ConAgra massacre in Greeley, Colo. was cogitate to an clap of E. coli O157:H7. The irruption killed one person and sickened at least 46. \n