Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Monday, Nov. 15, 2004 @ 7:30
Trout Auditorium (Vaughan Lit 100)

Eric Schlosser
Investigative Reporter

A graduate of Princeton University, Eric Schlosser has been a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone and The New Yorker. He is the author of the national best-sellers, Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness. In Fast Food Nation, Mr. Schlosser reveals how fast food has been a revolutionary force in American life, transforming our diet as well as our economy, workforce and popular culture. The book reveals the inner workings of the fast food industry, from the appalling conditions in the American meat-packing plants to the “flavor industry” along the New Jersey Turnpike that gives fast food its taste. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and reached #1 on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s list of “What They’re Reading on College Campuses.” Mr. Schlosser’s next book will explore the question, “How does the land of the free come to have the largest prison population in the history of the world?”