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Are you part of the Fast Food Nation?

Charles Dickens raised the social issues alarm during the industrial revolution when he published Hard Times in 1854. Over fifty years later in 1906, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to improvements for meatpackers in Chicago’s stockyards. Since 2001, Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation has...

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