Fast Food Nation

My Lesson From College: Hard Work and Privilege Aren't Mutually Exclusive

Josh A. Goodman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Graduation, One Percent, Fast Food Nation, Commencement, College, Inequality, White Privilege, College News
Josh A. Goodman

I feel a responsibility to use my privilege to address privilege. This comes through my awareness of privilege and prejudices, and my efforts to critically address my own prejudices and call others out on theirs, too.

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Fast Food World

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Photography, Chinese Fast Food, Video, Beijing, Anja Hitzenberger, Chinese Take Out, Fast Food Nation, Slidewide, Chinese Food, Female Artists, Underline Gallery, Contemporary China, Supersize Me, Arts News

Seeing Anja Hitzenberger's photography exhibition on Chinese fast food feels like the visual equivalent of eating cheap takeout -- we experience the c...

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'Fast Food Nation,' 10 Years Later

Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Fast Food Nation, Fast Food, Video, Eric Schlosser Fast Food, Fast Food Nation Book, Fast Food Industry, Fast Food Nation Ten Years, Eric Schlosser, Food News

Ten years ago, "Fast Food Nation" made a big impact. If you needed a reason to never eat another McDonald's hamburger again, this book gave you severa...

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These Workers Think Their Jobs Are Hurting The World

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Fast Food Health, Video, Fast Food Chains, Fast Food Nation, Business News, Jobs, Bad Jobs, Fast Food Workers, Obesity, Fast Food Industry, Business News

They may feed millions of hungry consumers on a daily basis, but fast food workers say their job is hurting the world. More than 40 percent of fas...

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New Documentary Tries To Argue For Sustainability Without Polemics

Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: American Meat Movie, Meat Documentary, Food Movies, American Meat, Food Inc., Sustainable Food, Fast Food Nation, Sustainable Agriculture, American Meat Documentary, Food News

American Meat is by no means the first movie to make a case for sustainable husbandry. 2006's fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Natio...

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Meatless Monday: Labor Day Pains

Ellen Kanner | Posted 11.05.2011

Read More: Fast Food Nation, Tomatoland, Barry Estabrook, Food, Inc. Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Slow Food USA, Eric Schlosser, Josh Viertel, Green News
Ellen Kanner

You want to be treated right on the job and you deserve to be. So do the people who grow our food.

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The Future Of Food Guides?

Chris Elam | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Food System, Fast Food Nation, Food Warrior Summer Internship Program, Zingerman?S, Food Inc., Sun Fed Beef, Restaurant Guide, Alex Young, Food Guide, Darcy's Cart, Real Time Farms, Food News
Chris Elam

What if there was a place where you could learn about the exact foods you were eating -- in real time -- whether you were at your family dinner table, in a favorite restaurant, or even alongside a food truck?

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Eric Schlosser: Why Being A Foodie Isn't Elitist

Eric Schlosser in the Washington Post | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: American Farm Bureau, Michael Pollan, Food Inc., Foodie Backlash, Food Elitists, Food Politics, Fast Food Nation, Big Ag, Foodies, Eric Schlosser, Food News

At the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual meeting this year, Bob Stallman, the group's president, lashed out at "self-appointed food elitists" w...

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"What The Hell": A Conversation with Avril Lavigne, a Josh T. Pearson Exclusive, Roy Orbison News and a YouTube/RightsFlow Deal

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fast Food Nation, Roy Orbison, Black Star, Josh T. Pearson, Youtube, Avril Lavigne, Abbey Dawn, Forbidden Rose, Over the Hedge, Tim Burton, Rightsflow, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Bored? Well, this particular post features an interview with pop icon Avril Lavigne, an exclusive video by artist Josh T. Pearson, news about a crazy, over-the-top Roy Orbison box set, and a RightsFlow/YouTube deal.

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Meatless Monday: Ramadan Fast

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ramadan, Fast Food Nation, Morocco, Eric Schlosser, Harira, Recipes, Meatless Monday, Green News
Ellen Kanner

We are midway through Ramadan, the month-long Muslim holiday marked by fasting -- no food or drink from dawn till sunset. The fasting, mandated in th...

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Michael Pollan: The Food Movement, Rising (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Michael Pollan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fast Food Nation, Fast Food, Michael Pollan, Food Movement, Food Politics, Books, New York Review of Books, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Cheap food has become an indispensable pillar of the modern economy. But it is no longer an invisible or uncontested one. One of the most interesting ...

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NPR Compares Animal Factory to Sinclair and Schlosser

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Factory Farming, The Jungle, Cafo, Swine Flu, Npr, Factory Farms, Bse, David Kirby, Upton Sinclair, Animal Factory, Fast Food Nation, Muckraking, Mad Cow, Food Inc, Cafos, Eric Schlosser, Books News
David Kirby

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorant. We should not ignore the potential for animal factory farming to one day come back and bite us all in our collective, blissful behinds.

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Old stars and new independents: A modest suggestion

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis, Lucky Number Slevin, Big Love, Woody Harrelson, Extraordinary Measures, Nicolas Cage, Fast Food Nation, Burt Reynolds, The Great Buck White, Boogie Nights, 1980s, Steven Spielberg, Larry McMurtry, James Cameron, Band of Brothers, Sundance, Marshall Fine Commentary, Barry Levinson, The Pacific, Boone's Lick, 1990s, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Where the Wild Things Are, Mel Gibson, Colin Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War, Harvey, National Endowment for the Arts, Edge of Darkness, Video on Demand, Michael Bay, Dan Brown, Dear John, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

I've got an idea for how to change independent film and kick-start the kind of serious attention that video-on-demand seems to require. And it all s...

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Meatless Monday: Money for Nothing? Cheap Food's Hidden Costs

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fast Food Nation, Big Mac, McDonald's, Iceland, Eric Schlosser, Bjork, Food Politics, Vegetarian Recipes, Rube Goldberg. Meatless Monday, Green News
Ellen Kanner

As if Bjork isn't enough, there's another reason to love Iceland -- now it's the land without McDonald's. The franchise shuttered last month not as a...

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Books That Can Help Our Children Find a Path Through a Scary World (And Maybe Make Things a Little Better)

John Mesjak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vegetarian, Book Publishing, Tim Flannery, Afghanistan, Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, Pakistan, Fast Food Nation, Omnivore's Dilemma, Climate Change, Weather Makers, Al Gore, Book, Bookstores, Global Warming, Eric Schlosser, Books News
John Mesjak

Wherever your children are first exposed to the messy facts of our world, there will inevitably be questions about it. Luckily, young adult versions of informative books are here to help.

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From Fast Food Nation to Pro Food Ventures

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farms, Retail, Growing Power, The Jungle, Farmers, Food Retail, Will Allen, Upton Sinclair, Business, Fast Food Nation, Innovation, Usda, Slow Money, Michael Pollan, Pro Food, Food Inc., Industrial Food, Sustainable, Organic, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Local, Eric Schlosser, Pro, Investments, Triple Bottom Line, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Business News
Rob Smart

Early pioneers of the sustainable food movement, with dirt on their hands, lessons learned and progress made, have played a critical role in blazing trails for new ventures.

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I Was a Victim of the Peanut Butter Recall

Scott Dodd | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Personal Health, Books, The New York Times, Email, Omnivore's Dilemma, Fresh Direct, Fda, Eating Local, Peanut Butter, New York City, Michael Pollan, Bush Administration, Food and Drug Safety, Health, Grocery Stores, Fast Food Nation, Eating Locally, The Omnivore's Dilemma, New York Times, Peanut Butter Salmonella, Food and Drug Administration, Peanut Butter Recall, Healthy Living News
Scott Dodd

I can't say that I was in the dark when I bought my honey-roasted peanut butter last week, but like so many people, I had the impression that someone was looking out for me.

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Animals on the Hill, and in The Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Doyle, The Hill, Animal Welfare, David Scott, Ginnifer Goodwin, Agriculture, Randy Neugebauer, Animals, Mary Landrieu, David Vitter, Jean Schmidt, Jim Moran, Elton Gallegly, Animal Rights, Big Ag, Food Inc., Fast Food Nation, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Politics News
Michael Markarian

The lawmakers doing the bidding for Big Agribusiness simply don't get that the American public wants to see all animals treated humanely, including animals raised for food.

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You Are What You Eat: Food Inc. Brings Food to the Forefront

Tracy Hepler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Matters, Gmos, You Are What You Eat, Food Inc., Factory Farms, Fast Food Nation, Alice Waters, Fast Food Industry, Monsanto, Green News
Tracy Hepler

Looking at today's society it seems clear that when it comes to our food and nutrition, our priorities are out of whack. We need a wake up call and Food, Inc. is just that.

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Righteous Indigestion: Why Food, Inc. Must Be Seen

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fast Food Nation, Documentary, Best Movies on DVD, Food, Perdue-Farms, Investigative Journalism, Best Movies by Farr, Food Inc., Great Movies, Eric Schlosser, Green News
John Farr

The folksy Frank Perdue is long gone, my friends, but his chemically altered chickens live on! For this reason alone, Food, Inc. demands to be seen.

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Have A Latte, Idiot: The Coffee Wars Turn Bitter

Jason Notte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miller High Life, Apple, Microsoft, Starbucks, McDonald's, Food, Bill Gates, Dunkin' Donuts, Coffee Wars, Morgan Spurlock Documentary, Eric Schlosser, Fast Food, Coffee Culture, McDonald's Coffee, Morgan Spurlock, Fast Food Nation, Business News
Jason Notte

Vive la resistance! No, I'm sorry, "Fuck yeah, resistance!"

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