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I mean, you might say this is the book that started it all for me, but I don't think you would be telling the truth entirely. Not that I know what the book is that started it all, but I'm pretty sure this one came a little later. Regardless, I could read this book over and over again. Even the boring parts. And yes, there are some boring parts. I want to memorize it and preach it to the masses. Fast Food Nation is more educational than anything else, and pretty spectacularly eye-opening. The damage that McDonald's and its competition have done to this country is pretty painful, and painfully obvious when you drive across it or you know, look at its people. I actually thought of Fast Food Nation last night, in the final throes of White Teeth, when Josh Chalfen joins the animal rights group FATE. It made me want to read Fast Food Nation again to remind myself of the UK animal rights activists who've gone after Mickey-D's in the past. Anyway, it's good, and I don't eat fast food anymore unless it is an emergency or December in Atlanta and Chick-fil-A, because that is in my blood. One of these days I'll actually be a vegetarian and I'll actually avoid patronizing restaurants with bad supply lines (meaning I will have to eat at the 5 Season Brewery in Atlanta every meal for the rest of my life. DARN!), but that's a slow process. If there's one thing I've learned in the last three or four years, it's that you can't just up and change anything that falls in the Lifestyle Change file. You have to work it all in and make it part of your life. And now I am totally off topic. Go read this book.

2023-06-06 01:44