11-02-2003, 05:31 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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If you eat fast food..
Im sure 100% of you have had fast food to eat, possibly around 75% if not more consume fast food regulary and perhaps some dont eat anything but fast food.... If you even care a little about your health, you should go out and buy this book, it will err, change the way you look at the crap you re currently eating.
I know many of you will not have the will to do so but those that do will benefit from reading it. The name of the book is called "Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All American Meal", written by Eric Schlosser. The book is only 285 pages long and is throroughly enjoyable. I know most here are couch potatoes who couldnt give a **** if they dropped dead tomorrow but those that are a little interested in your health, youll love this book. Perhaps some of this quotes will persuade to get it... "God strike me dead before I consume another fast food product...Fast Food Nation is the kind of book that you hope young people read because it demonstrates far better than any social studies class the need of government regulation, the unchecked power of multinational corporations, and the importance of our everyday decisions" "Overall this disturbing page turner will almost certainly curb your appetite" "Fast Food Nation...Enough to make a vegetarian out of Arnold Schwarzenegger" "Sit down for half an hour with Eric Schlossers treatise, Fast Food Nation, and you will experience the best diet plan ever devised" if you care a bit about your own health and are concerned you too may consume too much fast food, I think you should take the time to read this. If someone does buy the book and somehow manage to read it, Id love to hear feedback. Slim |
11-02-2003, 06:47 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Location: Yesterday i woke up stuck in hollywood
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book sounds good, but suggesting that most people here eat fast food most of the time is kind of odd, also, is it really really necessary to type **** instead of 'fuck'? I mean were all 18+ here, if you are offended by it, then why use it in a sentance? and if you aren't offended by it, then why the astrics? Something I will never understand about people.
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11-02-2003, 07:01 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: Ohio
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Is this just an ad for the book? Did the book teach you something you might want to share with us?
Does this belong in the Health and Fitness Forum? Or, maybe the Literature Forum, where people go to discuss books. You are a rookie, so I just noticed, so I mean to help. Instead of just posting what you did, which provides me with no useful information, except you liked the book, please post something from the book we can discuss. Maybe you could tell us why fast food is so yucky. Then you could ask why we are dumb enough to eat that crap, etc.
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11-02-2003, 10:25 PM | #9 (permalink) |
Post-modernism meets Individualism AKA the Clash
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yeah i should read this. it always catches my eyes at powell's book store. i work for fast food too :-D
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11-02-2003, 10:56 PM | #10 (permalink) | |
Something like that..
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Haha yea, I've heard stories about this book. Its a biography, of sorts, on the fast food whatever as a whole. Where who gets what food from, what this is fried in, stuff like that. Definetly a good read, I would have read it myself if I didnt have paper mache doughnuts to make....
edit: Review from Amazon.com Quote:
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11-02-2003, 11:10 PM | #11 (permalink) |
Like John Goodman, but not.
Location: SFBA, California
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I read it back in the day. I can crisply recall two things from it, the first being that it's mostly about the way fast food companies/franchising interacts with society and the economy (ie turnover rates, low wages, no benefits, etc).
The second being a story about (I *think* it was Jack in the box) a fast food company that had poisoned a few people with... maybe E. Coli, but something specific. There were two facts that could have been extrapolated from the poisonings: The virus that was ingested was only feasibly carried via feces (ie the cows tend to shit around when they're being slaughtered, and some of it makes its way into the meat), and that the product was not being cooked at a high enough temperature to kill the virus. The solution was to cook it more. What was widely ignored by the company and the media was the other part: "There is shit in the meat." |
11-02-2003, 11:14 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Location: The Event Horizon
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Yes, do not eat fast food instead save your homeostasis for all that lovely frankenfood your buying unless you shop at a 100% organic food store. My special favorite is pig thats been genetically crossed with spinach; yum!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/1780541.stm Not attempting to get to far off the topic here, but if anyone reads the article at this link, what is your impression of the last paragraph?
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11-03-2003, 12:13 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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Location: Davidson College, NC
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My philosophy is: "YUMMY!!! ME EAT!!!" I was a wrestler and had to cut weight all the time, so now that I can eat bad and stuff, I'm gonna. I suppose when I get older I may want to start respecting my body or whatever and may regret this, but for now I will enjoy my youthful metabolism .
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11-03-2003, 12:23 AM | #14 (permalink) |
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Everybody says this book will change the way I feel about fast food, yet when it comes to any examples they can give, it seems rather tame. Sure gross stuff goes on at fast food joints. Also happens at the real restaurants, too. Gross stuff also happens in slaughterhouses. Too many people handle my food before it gets to me. I'll just have to trust them. One guy told me that the meat is tasteless and the flavor comes from bottled chemicals. No big deal there. And if that's so, I want a bottle of this "Whopper in a bottle." I'd make everything taste like a Whopper. I could even eat my vegetables! Hell, they should market this stuff. You can eat healthy with all the taste of fast food.
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11-03-2003, 01:22 AM | #15 (permalink) |
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Location: Ohio
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There are things you don't want to know about in all your foods. There are a certain number of insect parts allowed per/(whatever)unit in your cereal. Your broccoli has insect feces in it, dirt, dust, and you don't want to remember what kind of mites live in your pillows.
The world is full of fun stuff we like to pretend isn't there. That's why we have immune systems. Are this many people that naive? No one should be surprised that their food is not 100% devoid of things they'd rather not know about? C'mon people. Surprise number 2: Many restaurants serve cleaner food than you do at home. Very, very few home cooks have been through any of the sanitation, cleanliness, or cross-contamination classes that professional cooks do. I'd still like to discuss something other than ads for this book. The TFP is not supposed to be an advertising forum for people who can quote book reviews from web sites. How 'bout some quality here. I want direct lessons from this book that are supposed to be soooooo surprising. I want some shocking new information that will change the way I think about food. Tell me more than I can learn from the FDA standards.
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11-03-2003, 04:52 AM | #16 (permalink) |
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Location: Voted the Best
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There's already a discussion of Fast Food Nations here.
And just for the record, I thought the book was a little to biased.
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11-03-2003, 05:37 AM | #17 (permalink) |
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Location: france
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The part about advertising to kids really gets my goat. This really should be stopped, and the insidious presence of McD et al in schools, colleges is really beyond the pale. Someone needs to take these monsters in hand, and I reckon a couple of rounds in a small ring with Naomi Klein would sort any of those non-spinach-spliced corporate pigs.
What do I think about the last paragraph, Sun Tzu? I think all concerned need their heads examining. A 1% survival rate means they clearly don't know what they're doing They should all be rounded up in a non-GM field, and shot. There, I said it. |
11-03-2003, 08:01 AM | #18 (permalink) |
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Location: Florida
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Goddammit is this Fast Food Nation thing some kind of cult? I'm serious. Some people talk about FFN exactly like the Scientologists I knew would always talk about Dianetics.
I have yet to see an example of anything from that book that was at all shocking. I might check out that book for the hell of it but from my understanding it can be summed up as follows: "Animals have to die so we can eat meat and people who flip burgers make shit money so corporations are evil and taking over our lives and going to kill us all!" |
11-03-2003, 05:16 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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if you want people to not eat fast food, just have them work at a fast food place for a few weeks. I've worked at McDonalds for a few months now, and barely ever eat fast food anymore, short of Subway occasionally..
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11-03-2003, 07:10 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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What killed me about the book is the fact that our meat processors like preparing meat for the European market because their standards are higher and the workers have a better-paced job. Why is it that we prepare better standards for people who are not American? Why should our standards be any less than anyone else? That is crazy, we should have the best and people should hope to be at our level. That is why I only eat kosher hot dogs now, because they are prepared at a higher standard of all beef and no entrails or anything like that.
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11-03-2003, 09:11 PM | #24 (permalink) |
Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!!
Location: IN, USA
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Don't need the book for that.. Just go to McD's and order their Chicken. I don't know WHAT its made of, but its no LAND animal, I can tell you that. I like to call it, "The Chicken of the Sea." Couldn't finish the meal, never had that shit again.
Subway though, at least I can see what they are putting in there. Pizza Hut uses really hot ovens... and Yes I like Taco Bell, and that my friends is why I thank my extremely powerful Immune System.
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11-03-2003, 10:36 PM | #26 (permalink) | |
Insane
Location: Vancouver
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I thoroughly enjoyed the book because it was very objective, it wasn't over the top with exaggeration and all the chapters were well supported. It didn't, however change my fast food eating habits. I don't eat much of it to begin with, but i have no problem with eating it ocassionally, and I still don't.
My favourite section though, was when eric schlosser wrote about the flavourists who created smells for just about anything we use. It was very interesting to say the least, and not in a bad way. Quote:
Organic foods and GM foods are a touchy topic so this is STRICTLY my own opinion. Although the idea of dying piglets is sad, there will come a day where overpopulation will be so problematic that there will be, more commonly, dying people from the lack of food. In which case, the idea of GM foods, which may be able to grow more effeciently will be more helpful, in spite of the piggies. But that's a disputable idea. More directly relating to the article and your question, while only 1% of the pigs survived, this is also an experiment. So at least it's not en masse. At the same time, I've dissected fetal pigs before in biology and these things get delivered in boxes of a hundred...it's really difficult get attached to it when it's such a scientific approach. FINALLY. if you couldn't tell, I support GM foods in most ways [not environmentally though]. It's processed food that are dangerous. Which brings us full circle back to the book. It gives you zits, adds to your thighs and from reading the book, fast food is deeply involved in politics as well. So for a good read...give the book a try.
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