I just watched Fast Food Nation the movie. I must tell you now that I have not read the book, though as the family healer, I have taught my children that all those fast food chains are selling junk food. We look at eating out as a risk. We do not control the marketing or the cooking. The food is probably not organic, the safety standards slacking, the condiments are the cheapest the restaurant can get away with, health and nutrition are non-existent in their set of priorities.
The movie does not expound on why fast food eating is detrimental to your health. We have a good number of relatives living in the urban United States and they are victims of the fast food culture. They have no time, no money, no resources to eat home cooked meals on a regular basis. Regular fast food eaters are the height of grinding POVERTY, and they have poor health to show for it.
The movie focused on the plight of poor Mexicans crossing into the US border and wanting jobs, even if it has to be in the most dangerous places like the meat processing plants.
The movie exposes the money saving shortcuts done to survive in a cut throat fast food industry focusing on the big one beef harmburger. There are the artificial smells being concocted by chemists, the cleanliness in the stores run by lowly paid students, the contaminated meats in the processing plants, all in the pursuit of lowering prices for competition and profits.
The movie is star studded to attract the regular folk. But I did not find it very entertaining, nor did I feel any large impact. Maybe I’m being unfair, but for impact, Terrorstorm, Freedom to Fascism, and Super Size Me do a better job.