In chunk 3 Eric Schlosser discusses the industrial side of fastfood corporations. Meat and potatoes are no longer processed by individual farms and ranchers, but large corporate chains such as ConAgra Foods and the J. R. Simplot Company, which perfected the concept of the frozen french fry, and how they have a strong hold, or monopoly, of the food processing industry leading to a massive economic and social shift that led to farmers and ranchers being left disenfranchized and hopeless, some committed suicide. The hazards of working for these companies are also expressed, and how it is a constant danger to work in the factories owned by these companies. For example, "a fire at a poultry plant killed twenty-five workers in 1991...its emergency exits had been chained shut," shows the danger of working in these factories.
Clarification: As you read the chunk were you disgusted by the conditions that these employees work in?
Application: Were you at all surprised at how the industry works and how it effects the economic and social aspects of certain regions?
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yes i was highly disgusted. i mean i felt betrayed to know that all the food i eat from fast food resturants is not from a farm. i mean food that was planted in the earth and perfectly watered daily. how do you feel aout this?do you feel that they do not care about our well being?
ReplyDeleteYes, I think these conditions are inhumane and someone should put an end to it. Make a workers union or something... I wasn't surprised about them affecting the economy of certain regions because everyone buy's these restaurant's food everyday. So why wouldn't they?
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