Fast Food Nation By Eric Schoolser
Chapter 9 response:
Americas favorite food, the hamburger was beginning to become the reason for many deaths and illnesses. The beef was contaminated with unsanitary things such as; vomit, stool, and rats which lead to many health inspections in the future. The inspections were the cause to some factories being closed. Inspections helped create new rules and regulations but factories continued to find ways to get around them.
Quotes Chapter 9:
“The hamburger habit is just about as safe as” one food critic warned, “as getting meat out of a garbage can.” (197)
“Those who survive are often left with permanent disabilities, such as blindness or brain damage.” (200)
Questions and responses:
Fast food industries wouldn't be where they are today without hamburgers so, what if there were no such thing as hamburgers?
I feel that the fast food industries know they their meat is not as healthy as it should be especially the hamburgers. Since they know those why do they still advertise so much to have children continuously eating these hamburgers?
Javon,
ReplyDeleteA lot of good things in this post - clear and clean precis. Good first quote too.
Level of thinking isn't college ready. You ask, "What if there were no such thing as hamburgers?" and "Since they know those why do they still advertise so much to have children continuously eating these hamburgers?"
Neither of these questions seems insightful. The second one seems even pseudo-naive - they do it to make profit. A more interesting question would be something about how or why they justify (to themselves or others) their choice to prioritize profit over health or how or why the U.S. system is set up to allow them to do that.