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 // Fast Food Nation //has to do with muckraking because the writer Eric Schlosser talks about the problems in the fast food industry and by taking to people in the industry he makes the reader want to change the fast food industry.  // Fast Food Nation //exposes the problems in slaughterhouses. It talks about all the major injuries that people get and how they have to come back to work right after going to the hospital. Also the book talks about how little they get paid for all the hours they work. The way the writer talks about it makes me want to do what I can to change the way they’re treated.  Also the novel talks about the government’s poor job of detecting // E. coli // and Salmonella. Because of it too many people are dying from getting sick from these two diseases. The book shows how little of the fast food is tested for // E. coli // and Salmonella. Lastly with this topic it shows the government’s poor understanding of how bad // E. coli //and Salmonella and effect people.  Next Fast Food Nation talk about how good the advertising is and mascots are for fast food restaurants because it’s so good it makes kids want to eat at them. Kids are so in to fast food that they can recognize fast food mascots before U.S. presidents. Eric Schlosser talks about how that needs to change so our country can change.  Lastly Eric Schlosser talks about because of fast food, how it has changed our country. He talks about how obesity rates have sky rocketed because of fast food. Also he talks about how people are having a harder time doing their jobs because they are so over weight. Eric Schlosser over all message with Fast // Food Nation // is that we need to stop letting our country be ran by fast food. 