Today’s paperback of choice was Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. I started it at around 8:30 this morning and by 3:30 it was back in my bag finished. I didn’t read the entire time, I had an hour lunch break, took about three dozen phone calls, and wrote out several taxi slips.
I was not shocked or horrified by the statistics presented in the book –Gavin had read the most shocking tidbits out loud to me, usually over breakfast, or when I was trying to fall asleep, isn’t he thoughtful?
I was a little irked that he picked on the Republicans so much, but Schlosser addressed that in the afterward, if he’d talked more about Chicken, he could’ve talked about the Clinton’s Chicken Connections.
I wish he had addressed the chicken issue more. More and more fast food places are offering chicken in addition to burgers. I tend to prefer the chicken sandwiches to the burgers at fast food places… the burgers creep me out.
Some of the regulations were just stupid, why does one agency have say over the chicken, but different one say over the eggs? And, as for his suggestion that congress ban all advertising to children under 8, why can’t parents simply turn off the TV and make their children find something else to do?
Well, clearly the parents aren’t going to take responsibility, but what makes him think Congress is going to? (and who’s declared Congress fit to make such decisions?… and then what other sorts of decisions are we going to let them make?) I agree, they do need to regulate the food industries better to prevent wide spread outbreaks of EColi and Salmonella. That is one issue, fast food marketing to children via TV commercials is a completely different one.
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