I'm scared to read Fast Food Nation.

[Urban Rubble]

I try not to eat fast food. I don't like to support the corporations, I am against the way the animals are raised and how inhumanely they are slaughtered. It's also really unhealthy.

The thing is, I'm broke most of the time. Sometimes, when it's midnight and I've been skating all day downtown, I'll only have $2. Well that $2 is enough to get a good amount of food at some places.

I try to only eat it as a last resort, but sometimes, that little bit of food saves my life.

I'm scared if I read this book I'll never want to eat that shit again. Now, that would probably be best, but sometimes that stuff saves me.

Oh well, there's always the 99 cent McValue fries.

[Wenty]

i've read it and it is indeed damning against the fast food industry. Yet with everything theres always two sides to an argument.

[suffianr]

I know what you mean, UR.

The place where I work caters to upmarket business professionals. Fast food is usually the only other option for me too, as I don't have the time to wander off in search of better stuff, or the money for fancy restaurants.But it sort of balances it out as I rarely eat any of that McShite other times, anyway.

[anti machine]

I work at Casa Taco. I'm never eating fast food again in my life.

[Organic Revolution]

hahahaha why what make u not want it.. did u read fast food nation?

[Lefty]

I haven't eaten at mcdonalds or BK or taco bell or any of those places in 8 months.

[FatFreeMilk]

*ok that was stupid

I've been neglecting that stupid ass fucking book Don Quixote for this book. Hell yeah it's well written.

So have you been eating mickey d's lateley UB?

[Ortega]

I only eat at Chipotle and Penn Station. I live on Penn Station. But I think that's only a local chain...

I'm just starting Fast Food Nation - it looks very well written already.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Ignorance was bliss. When I went through my research phase before my mass boycott I was scared at checking out labels of things. I knew that my lifestyle revolved around things I hated. Answer..now it doesn't and I am as happy as ever. Read the book.

[Iron Star]

Mcdonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King are of the lowest quality. Next after them is Arby's and Wendy's. And then finally you have the highest quality fast food franchizes; KFC and Pizza Hut.

[mia wallace]

i agree it&#39;s bad to eat fast food and everything, but i think it&#39;s not okey to say it should be closed cause it would be if (most of that) same people wouldn&#39;t eat there so much, so... <_<
i don&#39;t know if it&#39;s that way in america too, but in my country it is.

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

I studied Fast Food Nation before...yeah it sorta detracted me from buying Mickey-D&#39;s or BK, but damn...when ur hungry...last resorts seem to taste extra sweet...lol.

BK even has its own university....BK University, where Asst. Managers and Managers are trained...messed up shit i know...

[mentalbunny]

Read it. You can still eat it after you&#39;ve read the book, just your conscience will kick you more. Hell I still eat meat at school sometimes but I know how it&#39;s lived. I still use the odd product tested on animals (but I don&#39;t buy them, if that makes any sense. If my mum buys the wrong thing out of ignorance I&#39;ll use it, she knows better now).

As GR once said, become aware but carry on living in the system. That&#39;s what he does, and although i fin the system totally abhorrent it&#39;s very difficult not to, so I don&#39;t believe that it matters all that much if you succumb occasionally, because most of the time you do make that effort.

[Ortega]

Originally posted by Knowledge 6 6 [email protected] 1 2004, 05:48 PM
I studied Fast Food Nation before...yeah it sorta detracted me from buying Mickey-D&#39;s or BK, but damn...when ur hungry...last resorts seem to taste extra sweet...lol.

BK even has its own university....BK University, where Asst. Managers and Managers are trained...messed up shit i know...
Benihana&#39;s (another restaurant most of you wouldn&#39;t know) has its own college too.

Crazy stuff, that is.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by Iron [email protected] 1 2004, 08:52 PM
Mcdonald&#39;s, Taco Bell, and Burger King are of the lowest quality. Next after them is Arby&#39;s and Wendy&#39;s. And then finally you have the highest quality fast food franchizes; KFC and Pizza Hut.
I would most definately not put KFC as highest quality. Although I can eat from ocassional fast food restaraunts, as long as they are local chains....I could not bring myself to eat chicken. Shop bought or not. The only chicken I can even think about is organic corn fed chickens..or locally killed ones.

That is a food I actually fear, there have been a number of reports damning chicken in the U.K. even Harod&#39;s chicken I would not touch. The crap that makes it to KFC is enough to make me gag thinknig about it and I have a very strong stromach.

[Inti]

I will see if I can find a copy of that book, but probably it will only confirm all the things I have heard or seen already. I have had a boycott of the fast food here in Norway for a couple of years now. I havent had any macdonald or any of that stuff for like 2 years now or more. Doesnt seem that they go broke though :(
We dont have KFC here in Norway and Im better off without it, because one would never know if one would feel weak one day and buy some, though I doubt it would happen.
I prefer my bread and homecooked meal.

I have even gotten so far as throwing kids out of my store or tell them to leave their stuff outside sometimes if I see them with the behated McDonald foodstuff.. (we have a prohibited to eat sign).. Usually Im slack with the no eating stuff, but McD deserves to be fought against in my eyes.

[Sabocat]

I&#39;ve been neglecting that stupid ass fucking book Don Quixote for this book.

:o

Don Quixote is one of the great works of all time.

[mentalbunny]

Don Quixote is one of the great works of all time.

That may be but it&#39;s a fucker to read.

[Marxist in Nebraska]

I read the first chapter of Fast Food Nation almost two months ago now. It was informative and interesting, but I do not know what was wrong with it. I just put the book down and never picked it back up. I have been meaning to get back on reading that, but it has not happened yet.

By the way, I have the same fear elaborated by Urban Rubble and others... I have to eat the stuff sometimes... I do not have a lot of money, etc...

[mentalbunny]

The thing about Fast Food Nation for Europeans, is that is doesn&#39;t seem terribly relevant. And in any case, there are other books which are perhaps more necessary than FFN, like No Logo for example.

[Hegemonicretribution]

I agree that NoLogo was far more helpful to me than FFN. Then again I NEVER entered big fast food joints before I read the book that was more a case of me feeling good about myself. However, despite being pretty clued NoLogo was imformative for me.

I still don&#39;t understand how people "depend" on this over price under-nutricious crap. Perhaps that is all that is on offer at certain times of the day but it needn&#39;t be a problem with foward planning and organisation. I found it hard when going on a "treat" to Alton Towers..it was a cadet funstion and I was there with them so was not going to stop a number of younger teenagers going because there wasn&#39;t enough senior cover....however I avoided food and drink allday. O.K. very hungry and dehydrated when I returned but I learnt that when it happened the following year I would have to plan ahead.

It is all really a case of how much you want to change your lifestyle. At the end of the day your boycotts don&#39;t do a lot. The example you set does little more. It is self satisfaction, I did it for the kick, now out of habbit.

If the thought of fast food repulsed you that much, you wouldn&#39;t stomach it. You would find alternatives.

[FabFabian]

Don&#39;t be afraid. Read Fast Food Nation because it is a great book. Yes, it will confirm all your deep bedded suspicions of what is totally wrong with the fast food industry, but it is so much more than that. It really indicts the whole capitalist throw away society that has emerged from the need to get meals quick and cheap.

I understand your dilemma about the fact that you sucumb to the fast food places cuz they are cheap. That is how the bastards have made their millions and made the general public derrieres wider. You might want to change which one&#39;s you want to spend your money in. Lord knows there is a high enough concentration of these places in area, that you can&#39;t say you have no choice. Instead of Mc&#39;d&#39;s go to a Wendy&#39;s or a Harvey&#39;s if you can, then you can if you want ,to ween yourself off of them all together.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I&#39;ve been assured by my mother that it IS beef they put in McD&#39;s burgers... I&#39;m not sure whether to believe her.

I&#39;m not sure how the fast food situation is over in europe and the UK is compared to the US.
It&#39;s always tempting to accuse the US of having lower standards than us.

[mentalbunny]

They used to put whole cows in the meat grinders. That was in the 70&#39;s amd the 80&#39;s, now they&#39;re a bit better, after all the BSE scares and stuff.

[guerrillaradio]

Originally posted by [email protected] 1 2004, 10:51 PM
As GR once said, become aware but carry on living in the system. That&#39;s what he does, and although i fin the system totally abhorrent it&#39;s very difficult not to, so I don&#39;t believe that it matters all that much if you succumb occasionally, because most of the time you do make that effort.
I said that?? I do that??