There is Shit in the Meat
This novel is separated by two sections, “The American Way,” which investigates the creation of the Fast Food Nation after World War Two; and “Meat and Potatoes,” which investigates the fast food industry in depth, as well as the flavors of the food, the production of cattle and chicken, the working conditions within the beef industry, the negative effects of eating the meat, and how fast food is basically part of the American culture. Most people around the world are enjoying the food that they are consuming, but what they don’t realize is where the food is being produced and what it may contain. Our food comes from slaughterhouses and may contain E. coli. In the fast food industry there is a legislation known as Kevin’s Law. Kevin’s law is known for a boy who had died in 2001 which ended up being contaminated with E. Coli.
In Fast Food Nation chapter 9 opens up with a short story about the largest reminiscence of food of our nation’s history. In 1997 an estimation of thirty-five million pounds of ground beef was ejected by Hudson Foods because a strain of E. coli was found in the food. However, once the ejection came into action it was too late because twenty-five million pounds was already eaten. Schlosser reports that the quality of food poisoning is changing. Prior to the growth of large meatpacking plant, people would become ill from awful food in certain areas. Now because the meat is distributed all over the U.S. an epidemic of food poisoning in a single area could hint a national epidemics. Every day in the U.S. there are at least two-hundred thousand people that are diagnosed with foodborne disease. Schlosser disputes that there is only one reason why people get sick from eating a hamburgers: there is shit in the meat. In previous years hamburgers were identified with the poor and thought they were not safe to eat. However, the first hamburger chain, White Castle, had worked hard in the 1920s to show that the meat was well...