Fast Food: The Good, the Bad and the Hungry (Food Controversies)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1780235747 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Fast Food examines some of the serious controversies related to the fast-food industry, focusing with plenty of facts and figures on six of them: the industry’s globalisation; the nutritional quality and healthiness of its food and drinks; its mass marketing techniques, particularly aimed at children and young people; its impact on the environment; its massive influence on meat production; and the way the industry treats its workers. Being well documented it is an important book”
Quick and informative read. kevin pate A good book on fast food in the united states. I was kind of sad at the repeating of a few paragraphs throughout each successive chapter, but perhaps this was an echoing effect that the writers were going for.If you are looking for an in-depth analysis I would recommend a search for more focused topic. This is a broad stroke piece that touches on several topics and skims the surface of each.
As Smith shows, we have long known about these problems, and the fast food industry for nearly all of its existence has been beset with scathing exposés, boycotts, protests, and government interventions, which it has sometimes met with real changes but more often with token gestures, blame-passing, and an unrelenting gauntlet of lawyers and lobbyists. Fast Food ultimately looks at food as a business, an examination of the industry’s options and those of consumers, and a serious inquiry into what society can do to ameliorate the problems this cheap and tasty product has created. . From the first flipping of burgers in tiny shacks in the western United States to the forging of neon signs that spell out “Pizza Hut” in Cyrillic or Arabic scripts, the fast food industry has exploded into dominance, becoming one of the leading examples of global corporate success. Smith explores why the fast food industry has been so successful and examines the myriad ethical lines it has crossed to become so. In this book, expert culinary historian Andrew F. And with this success it has become one of the largest targets of political criticism, blamed for widespread obesity, cultu