THE BOOK Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001)

THE MOVIE Fast Food Nation (2006)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Starring Wilmer Valderrama, Cataline Sandin Moreno, Ana Claudio Talancón, Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Luis Guzmán, Robert Cannavale, and Ashley Johnson

THE MOVIE PLOT (Drama/Thriller)
In this fictionalized drama inspired by Schlosser’s nonfiction expose of junk-food companies, a marketing executive for a large burger chain discovers a terrible secret ingredient in their burger recipe. His ensuing investigation unearths the health risks associated with the fast-food industry, as well as its environmental and social consequences.

1981 Nassau Herald

Courtesy Eric Schlosser ’81

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