Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is a book by Eric Schlosser which examines the fast food industry in the United States.
Schlosser examines and discusses how the increasing dominance of fast food and the whole industry supporting it, have lead to a number of changes in American society. In particular he argues that companies involved in the fast food industry have used their political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of the health of the nation and the social conditions of its workers.
In his examination of the meatpacking industry Schlosser finds that is it now dominated by casual immigrant labour and that levels of injury are among highest of any occupation in the United States.
Schlosser notes that there are more robberies at fast-food restaurants than at banks, gas stations or convenience stores.
- ISBN 0060938455 (paperback edition 2002, 400pp.)
- ISBN 0713996021 (paperback edition 2001, 368pp.)
- ISBN 0141006870 (paperback edition 2002, 400pp.)
- ISBN 0395977894 (hardcover edition 2001, 288pp.)
