FAST FOOD NATION

Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation

This section undoes with an anecdote about the largest recall of nourishment in the nation's history. In 1997 approximately 35 million pounds of ground beef was recalled by Hudson nourishment because a strain of E Coli was discovered in the food. However, by the time the beef was recalled, 25 million pounds had already been eaten.

Schlosser remarks that the nature of food poisoning is changing. Prior to the increase of large meatpacking plants, people would become sick from bad nourishment in little, localized arenas. Now, because beef is circulated all over the nation, an ...