Ch 3.
page 68
Schlosser wrote that No other industry in the United States has a workforce so dominated by adolescents.About two-thirds of the nation's fast food workers are under the age of twenty .Even the managers are sometimes in their late teens.I have alwasy noticed that teh majority of the employees in the fast food industry were younger but I never would have thought two-thirds were. I was shocked thought when he wrote that even the managers were in their late teens. That scares me knowning that a teenager is managing a fast food restaurant. How much experience can they really have at a young age to take on the commitment of that job.


page 83
He stated that roughly four or five fast food workers are now murdered on the job every 6 month, usually during the course of a robbery. This is scary because my sister friends are around the age of 16 and they are starting to work in the fast food industry and knowning that they could have a chance of this happening to them. The industry is made of mostly people under the age of twenty so this is a young child life that is at stake. They also said in 1998 more restaurant workers were murdered on the job in the United States than police officers. There has to be something that can be done so that this statistics can go down because I would not have thought that you have more of a chance getting murdered in a fast food restaurant then being a cop.

Ch 7.
page 161
I hyave always heard that a lot of industrys hire people from Mexico,Guuatemala and El Salvador because they will work for half the money Americns will work for but never really thought it was true. After reading this I now know that this is true. This is hard labor and it is not fair to choose one race over another because they will work for less. In the book they stated that two thirds if the workers can not speak english. This is crazy because they are using machine and need direction and understanding. If the owner can not speak their language then who knows what the workers are talking about and how much can they really understand how much they should be paid for tehir labor.

page 165
I could not believe what I read about the smell in Lexington. When a resident from Lexington said that they had three odors and that they were burning hair and blood,greasy smell, and the odor of rotten eggs I just could imagine how awful that smell was. I complain about the smell of gas or the smell of something burnt but imagining waking up every morning to that smell is crazy. This smell comes from slaughterhouse wastewater lagoons, and it causes respiratory problems and headaches and at high levels it can cause damage to the nervous system. I do not understand how this is legal. It grosses me out knowning that this is all related to the food we eat for convience and that people have to actually go through this day by day.