Fast Food Nation - What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World

reprint with a new afterword: The Meaning of Mad Cow, Paperback, in-8, 386 pp., illustrations, bibliographical notes, impressive bibliography, index.
240: today about 44 million American adults are obese (BMI > 30); no other nation in history has gotten so fat so fast.
Important book exposing the food industry and conditioning of food habits.
S. throws some light on the highly secretive flavor industry: International Flavor & Fragrances (IFF) is the major company operating from Dayton, New Jersey. (121)
On hygiene: some of the stories told in the book are pure horror.

Schlosser (1959) studied American History at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford.