Fast food, the good, the bad and the hungry, Andrew F. Smith
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Fast food, the good, the bad and the hungry, Andrew F. Smith
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213), filmography (page 214) , and index
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Fast food
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bibliographyfilmographies
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919482950
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Andrew F. Smith
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Food controversies
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the good, the bad and the hungry
Summary
"Andrew F. Smith explores why the fast food industry has been so successful and examines the myriad ethical lines it has crossed to become so. As he shows, fast food - plain and simple - devised a perfect retail model, one that works everywhere, providing highly flavored calories with speed, economy, and convenience. But there is no such thing as a free lunch, they say, and the costs with fast food have been enormous: an assault on proper nutrition, a minimum-wage labor standard, and a powerful pressure on farmers and ranchers to deploy some of the worst agricultural practices in history. As Smith shows, we have long known about these problems, and the fast food industry for nearly all of its existence has been beset with scathing exposés, boycotts, protests, and government interventions, which they have sometimes met with real changes but more often with token gestures, blame-passing, and an unrelenting gauntlet of lawyers and lobbyists."--Publisher description
Table of contents
The beginning -- Globalization -- Health -- Marketing -- Environment -- Meat -- Labour -- The future
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