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

patronage all the unneeded harm that continues to be done, much has agitated for the transgress since 2001, when Fast fargon Nation appe ard in bookstores. Issues that were r arly discussed in the mainstream media fare safety, animal welfare, the obesity epidemic, the ethics of market junk provender to children, the need for a new and sustainable agricultural systemhave snuff it inescapable. A regimen reason has arisen crossways the country, promoted by authors, activists, and filmmakers. Marion Nestles sustenance Politics (2002), Frances and Anna Lappes Hopes run into (2003), Matthew Scullys Dominion (2003), Carlo Petrinis opposed Food (2004), Deborah Koons Garcias The future day of Food (2004), Morgan Spurlocks super Size Me (2004), Franny Armstrongs McLibel (2005), Michael Pollans The Omnivores dilemma (2006), Aaron Woolfs King maize (2008), Raj Patels Stuffed and Starved (2008), Robby Kenners Food, Inc. (2008), Barry Estabrooks Tomatoland (2011), the in spirt o f Tom Philpott, the essays of Corby Kummer and emphasise Bittman, the many books of Wendell pluck and Alice Waters, Jamie Olivers televised Food vicissitude all of these whole kit and boodle have feature to create a new aliment kitchen-gardening in the United States. That culture rejects highly impact foods, genetically modify foods, and the whole industrial approach to food production. It champions farmers markets, school gardens, powerful school lunches, and local and native production. And it has caused a sea change in American attitudes toward food. A decennary ago, the idea of an organic garden at the White kinfolk would have seemed inconceivable. \n end-to-end the United States, parents are working to guardianship fast food, junk food, and soda emerge of their childrens schools. The sale of ingathering and vegetable seeds for radix gardens is soaring. Idealistic college kids a good deal dream of comme il faut chefs or farmers, alternatively of doctors and law yers. The Food network has turned preparation into a form of mass diversion and transformed tribe who cook fountainhead into celebrities. The frozen, reheated, salty, fatty foods served at McDonalds and Burger King and KFC are the antithesis of what this new movement wants. Even the home(a) Restaurant Association, a corporate bastion of the old mindset, flat acknowledges the change. Its 2011 Restaurant effort Forecast says that todays assoil menu trends are local sourcing, sustainability, and nutrition.