Quarter #4 Book Portfolio

The book that I have read is Fast food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal By Eric Schlosser. Published in 2001, and is nonfiction. This book tells how fast food chains started, how fast food is cooked and processed, and the effects that fast food restaurants, and the restaurants suppliers have on the towns they are in. Why the food tastes the way it does, why they employ mostly teenagers, how some of the suppliers cheat people, and how the amount of cattle ranchers in the U.S. are are thinning. Don't judge a book by its cover. I chose this theme because say the outside of a McDonald's appeals to you but that doesn't mean that what is inside will.

Don't judge a book by its cover. A slaughterhouse is where they kill and process cattle to make burgers, Eric Schlosser took a tour of one in the book. He said that the building from the outside looked like any other factory, but on the inside there were illegal Mexican immigrants cutting the meat on conveyor belts with long knives, and at the beginning of the line the 'knocker' shoots the cattle in the head with a captive bolt stunner, then a 'sticker' severs the carotid artery of a steer every ten seconds or so. A Big Mac meal looks really nice but that does not mean that it has a good nutritional value. They have playgrounds that kids think are there for them to have fun but they are designed to attract children (and their parents) to its restaurants so that they can make profit. This them shows up in many places in the book with very different topics but the relevance is the same.

The theme is the same in a historical context. In southern California McDonald's chains were born. In the the 1940's most of southern California was farm land with citrus groves. Now it is mostly a bustling city. Back then they would have never known what it would be like now. The them was the same way back when as it is know.

Don't judge a book by its cover. This theme shows up in many places in the book with very different topics but the relevance is the same. The them was the same way back when as it is know. This book shows the theme well in many instances all through the book. It is important to understand this theme because it is everywhere in life, even when you don't think it matters, it matters.