Eric Schlosser's Book Becomes a Movie
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A fiction film based on Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater, opened November 17, 2006.
Schlosser and his co-author Charles Wilson also released a children's book entitled Chew On This earlier this year. The book tells about the fact that in any one McDonald's hamburger there may be meat from -- get ready for this -- 1,000 or more cows. That scared me into never eating at McDonald's again. Well, I might stop in for a Shamrock shake in March -- but the lard content in those ... look out (according the FFN, the book).
Chew On This, along with increasing publicity for the movie based on FFN resulted in 18 food industry associations launching the this Web site as part of a major public relations campaign.
I understand that the site presents statements about health and labor practices in the American beef, pork, dairy, potato and other industries. One page includes two press releases accusing Schlosser of publishing misinformation. However, few of the site's responses to the "myths" it accuses Schlosser and his allies of propagating actually answer any of the issues raised in his writings, according to researchers.
Schlosser is an American journalist and author. His most famous book is FFN, an exposé on the practices of the fast food industry, with a special focus on its sanitary conditions and treatment of workers. It evolved from a two-part article in Rolling Stone Magazine.
A fiction film based on Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater, opened November 17, 2006.
Schlosser and his co-author Charles Wilson also released a children's book entitled Chew On This earlier this year. The book tells about the fact that in any one McDonald's hamburger there may be meat from -- get ready for this -- 1,000 or more cows. That scared me into never eating at McDonald's again. Well, I might stop in for a Shamrock shake in March -- but the lard content in those ... look out (according the FFN, the book).
Chew On This, along with increasing publicity for the movie based on FFN resulted in 18 food industry associations launching the this Web site as part of a major public relations campaign.
I understand that the site presents statements about health and labor practices in the American beef, pork, dairy, potato and other industries. One page includes two press releases accusing Schlosser of publishing misinformation. However, few of the site's responses to the "myths" it accuses Schlosser and his allies of propagating actually answer any of the issues raised in his writings, according to researchers.
Schlosser is an American journalist and author. His most famous book is FFN, an exposé on the practices of the fast food industry, with a special focus on its sanitary conditions and treatment of workers. It evolved from a two-part article in Rolling Stone Magazine.
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