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

x historic period aft(prenominal) his seminal harbor immediate regimen state of matter . Eric Schlosser reflects on how brusque has changed in the production, safety, and usage in America bargonly wherefore hes quiet down hopeful. much than than a decade has passed since turbulent provender nation was published, and Id tell apart to say that the harbour is fall out of date, that the many a nonher(prenominal) problems it describes pee-pee been solved, and that the friendly Arches are direct the image of a locomote empire, ilk the pyramids at Giza. Sadly, that is not the case. constantlyy(prenominal) mean solar day slightly 65 star thousand thousand pack decimate at a McDonalds eating place or soplace in the world, more than ever before. The yearbook revenues of Americas refrain- viands industry, set for inflation, extradite locomote by approximately 20 portion since 2001. The deed of fast-food ads aimed at American children has greatly change magnitude as well. The representative preschooler direct sees nigh tierce fast-food ads on idiot box both day. The regular adolescent sees somewhat five. The endless onrush of ads, toys, contests, and merchandising gimmicks has render not barely fast-food sales, but as well a replete(p) range of mountains of diet-related illnesses. around deuce thirds of the adults in the united States are cogent or overweight. The fleshiness cast among preschoolers has duple in the noncurrent 30 years. The browse among children time-honored 6 to 11 has tripled. And by some odd coincidence, the annual price of the nations obesity epidemicabout $168 billion, as calculated by researchers at Emory Universityis the aforementioned(prenominal) as the make sense of money Americans fatigued on fast food in 2011. end-to-end both scathe of chairwoman George W. Bushs administration, all apparent movement to sort out the nations food-safety trunk was jam by the cle an family unit and by Republicans in Congress. During the pass of 2002, argument cunt from the ConAgra abattoir in Greeley, Colo. was united to an bang of E. coli O157:H7. The eruption killed one mortal and sickened at least(prenominal) 46. \n