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Book Title: Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food The author of the book: Eric Schlosser Edition: Harcourt Brace and Company Date of issue: September 26th 2013 ISBN: 1299904238 ISBN 13: 9781299904231 Loaded: 1394 times Reader ratings: 4.4 Language: English Format files: PDF The size of the: 856 KB City - Country: No data |
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so this book is turning out to be much like fast food nation.. but i thought i would post some facts about this book that really get the point across
- 4 meatpacking companies control 84% of the market (tyson, swift and co., excel, and national beef)
BUT ranchers only get 47 cents to the dollar spend on beef
- 1991 - one billion fish killed in north carolina by disease linked to runoff form slaughter house
-2004 - a 4 million pound pile of cow poop burned uncontrollably for 4 months
- 4 chicken companies control half of the american chicken market
-90% of chicken sold is no longer whole chickens but chicken that has already been cut into pieces (i.e. for mcnuggets)
- a typical chicken farmer only makes $12,000 a year
- chicken are fed (in the feed farms) anything from old pretzels and cookies covered in fat to leftover chicken parts.. making them cannibals
-in feed lots chicken gain weight so fast that if a child grew at a proportional rate they would weigh 286lbs by the time they are 6.. this usually makes chickens unhealthy and many are dying of heartattacks before they can be killed
- some chicken have trouble walking upright because they have been genetically altered to grow bigger breasts
- in 2006 9 billion chickens went through the feedlots to be killed and eaten (a chicken only lives 6 weeks before they are killed.. and all that time they never even get to see the outside)
- in slaughterhouses, 900 cattle are killed in an hour (on average).. that is 6 cows a minute
- OSHA's maximum fine it may impose on slaughterhouses for violating working conditions which resulted in a worker's death is $70,000, compared to the 27 billion that a meat company (Tyson in this example) earns a year..think about the impications
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Eric Schlosser is an award-winning American journalist and author known for investigative journalism. A number of critics have compared his work to that of Upton Sinclair.Schlosser was born in Manhattan, New York; he spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, California. His father, Herbert Schlosser, a former Wall Street lawyer who turned to broadcasting later in his career, eventually became the President of NBC in 1974. Schlosser studied American History at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford.
Schlosser lives in California, and is working on a book about the prison system. He is married to Shauna Redford, daughter of Robert Redford, and has two children.
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The book is a masterpiece that makes a richer soul, speech, and wider horizon.
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Why is she out! It must be endless!
CAMERON
Just a terrific book.
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Written easily, vividly, wisely.
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