When You Go Into A Fast Food Restaurant, You May Just Think About How Good Your Meal Tastes While You're Eating It. But You're Not Thinking About All The Consequences That Come From That One Purchase - The Consequences For Your Body, The Consequences For Supporting This Company And How It's Treating It Workers, All The Way Back To The Farm Where The Potatoes Were Grown, Or The Ranch Where The Cattle Were Raised.

-Eric Schlosser

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When You Go Into A Fast Food

Eric Schlosser

When You Go Into A Fast Food Restaurant, You May Just Think About How Good Your Meal Tastes While You're Eating It. But You're Not Thinking About All The Consequences That Come From That One Purchase - The Consequences For Your Body, The Consequences For Supporting This Company And How It's Treating It Workers, All The Way Back To The Farm Where The Potatoes Were Grown, Or The Ranch Where The Cattle Were Raised.

Topic

Thinking

Meals

Body

Future Historians, I Hope, Will Consider The American Fast Food Industry A Relic Of The Twentieth Century--a Set Of Attitudes, Systems, And Beliefs That Emerged From Postwar Southern California, That Embodied Its Limitless Faith In Technology, That Quickly Spread Across The Globe, Flourished Briefly, And Then Receded, Once Its True Costs Became Clear And Its Thinking Became Obsolete.

Attitude

Technology

Thinking