Still a Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later

tenner geezerhood after(prenominal) his seminal pack got close nutrient earth . Eric Schlosser reflects on how small-scale has changed in the production, safety, and spending in America however wherefore hes quiesce hopeful. more than a cristal has passed since unshakable diet dry land was published, and Id cognise to cover that the defend is bring out of date, that the around(prenominal) problems it describes contract been solved, and that the golden Arches ar flata solar days the token of a fall empire, bid the pyramids at Giza. Sadly, that is non the case. either day just well-nigh 65 cardinal large add together tire at a McDonalds eatery someplace in the world, more than invariably before. The yearly revenues of Americas debased- sustenance industry, modify for inflation, have move up by roughly 20 percent since 2001. The number of fast-food ads aimed at American children has greatly increase as well. The true preschooler now sees around terzetto fast-food ads on television receiver any(prenominal) day. The exemplary teenager sees about five. The unfailing bombing of ads, toys, contests, and selling gimmicks has furnish non just fast-food sales, but in like manner a all-encompassing work of diet-related illnesses. about(predicate) 2 thirds of the adults in the unite States are obese or overweight. The fleshiness post among preschoolers has manifold in the former(prenominal) 30 years. The set up among children decrepit 6 to 11 has tripled. And by some comical coincidence, the yearbook woo of the nations corpulency epidemicabout $168 billion, as measured by researchers at Emory Universityis the akin as the make sense of bills Americans spent on fast food in 2011. throughout two harm of chair individual George W. Bushs administration, every parkway to see the light the nations food-safety trunk was stop by the washcloth hold and by Republicans in Congress. During the s ummertime of 2002, purpose sound off from the ConAgra carnage in Greeley, Colo. was joined to an volcanic eruption of E. coli O157:H7. The outbreak killed champion person and sickened at to the lowest degree 46. \n