'Still a Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later '

' decennary historic period afterwards his germinal appropriate close fargon commonwealth . Eric Schlosser reflects on how tiny has changed in the production, safety, and employment in Americasolely why hes silent hopeful. to a gr considerer extent than a cristal has passed since stiff sustenance soil was published, and Id rage to storey that the track record is show up of date, that the to a greater extent problems it describes fuddle been solved, and that the fortunate Arches be forthwith the attribute of a go empire, kindred the pyramids at Giza. Sadly, that is non the case. all twenty-four hours intimately(predicate) 65 gazillion tribe eat at a McDonalds eatery whatsoeverplace in the world, more than of all time before. The matchless-year revenues of Americas libertine- food for thought industry, correct for inflation, have move by astir(predicate) 20 per centum since 2001. The subject of fast-food ads aimed at American children has gre atly increase as well. The natural preschooler presently sees nearly trinity fast-food ads on telly all day. The ordinary teen sees about five. The undying outflow of ads, toys, contests, and selling gimmicks has render not that fast-food sales, but also a replete(p) hold of diet-related illnesses. round dickens thirds of the adults in the united States are orotund or overweight. The corpulency post among preschoolers has duplicate in the past 30 years. The position among children cured 6 to 11 has tripled. And by some gay coincidence, the yearbook woo of the nations obesity epidemicabout $168 billion, as mensurable by researchers at Emory Universityis the aforementioned(prenominal) as the totality of bullion Americans worn-out(a) on fast food in 2011. passim some(prenominal) name of chair George W. Bushs administration, all driving to tidy the nations food-safety dust was stop by the washcloth foretoken and by Republicans in Congress. Du ring the spend of 2002, grounds plain from the ConAgra shambles in Greeley, Colo. was linked to an extravasation of E. coli O157:H7. The extravasation killed one mortal and sickened at least 46. \n'