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PENGUIN BOOKSFAST food Nation What makes fast food Nation different is that it is not the predictable anti-meat, anti-fat, anti-additives, anti-non-dairy creamer, anti-have-any-fun rant against McDonald itis meticulously researched and powerfully argued Observer Schlosser could do for the fast food industry what Rachel Carson s Silent Spring did for producers of pesticides The Times Eric Schlosser may be the Upton Sinclair for this age of mad cow [He has] a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling fast food Nationpoints the way, but, to resurrect an old fast - food slogan, the choice is yours Los Angeles Times An elegiac expos of how burgers, fries and sodas came to symbolize America The New York Times Book Review Required reading Express One of the best reasons to read Eric Schlosser s blazing critique of the American fast - food industry is his bleak portrayal of the alienation of millions of low-paid would be wrong to portray Schlosser s book as just another anti-McDonald s diatribe.

order, hand over a few dollars, watch teenagers in uniforms pushing various buttons, and moments later take hold of a plastic tray full of food wrapped in colored paper and cardboard. The whole experience of buying fast food has become so routine, so thoroughly

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1 PENGUIN BOOKSFAST food Nation What makes fast food Nation different is that it is not the predictable anti-meat, anti-fat, anti-additives, anti-non-dairy creamer, anti-have-any-fun rant against McDonald itis meticulously researched and powerfully argued Observer Schlosser could do for the fast food industry what Rachel Carson s Silent Spring did for producers of pesticides The Times Eric Schlosser may be the Upton Sinclair for this age of mad cow [He has] a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling fast food Nationpoints the way, but, to resurrect an old fast - food slogan, the choice is yours Los Angeles Times An elegiac expos of how burgers, fries and sodas came to symbolize America The New York Times Book Review Required reading Express One of the best reasons to read Eric Schlosser s blazing critique of the American fast - food industry is his bleak portrayal of the alienation of millions of low-paid would be wrong to portray Schlosser s book as just another anti-McDonald s diatribe.

2 It is deeper and broader than that London Review of Books A frightening investigation into America s fast food industry Independent fast food Nation will not only make you think twice before eating your next it will also make you think about the fallout that the fast foodindustry has had on America s social and cultural landscape The New York Times Our fast food executives are in for some sleepless nights food Magazine Makes for very unsettling reading. A brilliant, access-all-areas dissection of the McDonaldization of society Metro London His eye is sharp, his profiles perceptive, his prose thoughtful but spare. This is John McPhee behind the counter Washington Post A damning critique of the junk- food business Vogue fast food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done Daily Telegraph Skilful and persuasive Economist If the idea of a three-storey, illuminated Ronald McDonald strikes you as a blight on the landscape, this book is for you Globe and MailABOUT THE AUTHOREric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly.

3 He has received a number of journalistic honours, including a National MagazineAward for an Atlantic article he wrote about marijuana and the war on drugs. This is his first food Nation what the all-american meal isdoing to the worldERIC SCHLOSSERPENGUIN BOOKSPENGUIN BOOKSP ublished by the Penguin GroupPenguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, EnglandPenguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USAP enguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, AustraliaPenguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017. IndiaPenguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New ZealandPenguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South AfricaPenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices.

4 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, published in the USA by Houghton Mifflin Company 2001 First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 2001 Published with a new afterword in Penguin Books 200247 Copyright Eric Schlosser, 2002 All rights reservedThe moral right of the author has been assertedExcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulatedwithout the publisher s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposedon the subsequent purchaserISBN: 978-0-14-194421-0for RedcontentsIntroductionI. The American Way1. The Founding Fathers2. Your Trusted Friends3.

5 Behind the Counter4. SuccessII. Meat and Potatoes5. Why the Fries Taste Good6. On the Range7. Cogs in the Great Machine8. The Most Dangerous Job9. What s in the Meat10. Global RealizationEpilogue: Have It Your WayAfterword: The Meaning of Mad CowPhoto CreditsNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsI ndexA savage servilityslides by on grease. ROBERT LOWELL introductionCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN SITS on the eastern slope of Colorado s Front Range, rising steeply from the prairie and overlooking the city of ColoradoSprings. From a distance, the mountain appears beautiful and serene, dotted with rocky outcroppings, scrub oak, and ponderosa pine. Itlooks like the backdrop of an old Hollywood western, just another gorgeous Rocky Mountain vista. And yet Cheyenne Mountain is hardlypristine. One of the Nation s most important military installations lies deep within it, housing units of the North American AerospaceCommand, the Air Force Space Command, and the United States Space Command.

6 During the mid-1950s, high-level officials at the Pentagonworried that America s air defenses had become vulnerable to sabotage and attack. Cheyenne Mountain was chosen as the site for a top-secret, underground combat operations center. The mountain was hollowed out, and fifteen buildings, most of them three stories high, wereerected amid a maze of tunnels and passageways extending for miles. The four-and-a-half-acre underground complex was designed to survivea direct hit by an atomic bomb. Now officially called the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, the facility is entered through steel blastdoors that are three feet thick and weigh twenty-five tons each; they automatically swing shut in less than twenty seconds. The base is closedto the public, and a heavily armed quick response team guards against intruders.

7 Pressurized air within the complex prevents contaminationby radioactive fallout and biological weapons. The buildings are mounted on gigantic steel springs to ride out an earthquake or the blastwave of a thermonuclear strike. The hallways and staircases are painted slate gray, the ceilings are low, and there are combination locks onmany of the doors. A narrow escape tunnel, entered through a metal hatch, twists and turns its way out of the mountain through solid place feels like the set of an early James Bond movie, with men in jumpsuits driving little electric vans from one brightly lit cavern hundred people work inside the mountain, maintaining the facility and collecting information from a worldwide network ofradars, spy satellites, ground-based sensors, airplanes, and blimps. The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center tracks every manmade objectthat enters North American airspace or that orbits the earth.

8 It is the heart of the Nation s early warning system. It can detect the firing of along-range missile, anywhere in the world, before that missile has left the launch futuristic military base inside a mountain has the capability to be self-sustaining for at least one month. Its generators can produceenough electricity to power a city the size of Tampa, Florida. Its underground reservoirs hold millions of gallons of water; workerssometimes traverse them in rowboats. The complex has its own underground fitness center, a medical clinic, a dentist s office, a barbershop, achapel, and a cafeteria. When the men and women stationed at Cheyenne Mountain get tired of the food in the cafeteria, they often sendsomebody over to the Burger King at Fort Carson, a nearby army base. Or they call Domino every night, a Domino s deliveryman winds his way up the lonely Cheyenne Mountain Road, past the ominous DEADLY FORCEAUTHORIZED signs, past the security checkpoint at the entrance of the base, driving toward the heavily guarded North Portal, tucked behindchain link and barbed wire.

9 Near the spot where the road heads straight into the mountainside, the delivery man drops off his pizzas andcollects his tip. And should Armageddon come, should a foreign enemy someday shower the United States with nuclear warheads, layingwaste to the whole continent, entombed within Cheyenne Mountain, along with the high-tech marvels, the pale blue jumpsuits, comic books,and Bibles, future archeologists may find other clues to the nature of our civilization Big King wrappers, hardened crusts of Cheesy Bread,Barbeque Wing bones, and the red, white, and blue of a Domino s pizza we eatOVER THE LAST THREE DECADES, fast food has infiltrated every nook and cranny of American society. An industry that began with a handful ofmodest hot dog and hamburger stands in southern California has spread to every corner of the Nation , selling a broad range of foodswherever paying customers may be found.

10 fast food is now served at restaurants and drive-throughs, at stadiums, airports, zoos, high schools,elementary schools, and universities, on cruise ships, trains, and airplanes, at K-Marts, Wal-Marts, gas stations, and even at hospital 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food ; in 2001, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money onfast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies,books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music open the glass door, feel the rush of cool air, walk in, get on line, study the backlit color photographs above the counter, place yourorder, hand over a few dollars, watch teenagers in uniforms pushing various buttons, and moments later take hold of a plastic tray full offood wrapped in colored paper and cardboard.


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