Fast Food Nation

Chapter 3

Many areas of research can be found in chapter three including one area on page 60. The author writes that "Every few miles, clusters of fast food joints seem to repeat themselves, Burger King, Wendy's, and McDonald's, Subways, Pizza Huts, and Taco Bells, they keep appearing along the road, the same buildings and signage replaying like a tape loop". Based off of this topic, an area of research could be about how easy and accessible fast food is so everyone like myself can grab an unhealthy 'meal' if I'm running late or don't have enough money for healthier food which continues to perpetuate the unhealthy, obese country that we live in. Not to mention the fact that each of those fast food businesses can survive and even thrive when they are positioned right next door from their competition. This area of research could include that since each fast food place is succeeding while their strongest opponents in the fast food industry are around the corner, imagine how many people must eat fast food a day to keep all of the fast food businesses open. Another area of research could be from where the author writes, "they build large sign to attract motorists and look at cars the way predators view herd of prey" , on page 65. This could be an area of research about the marketing and advertising that fast food corporations use in order to attempt to persuade customers to come to their specific business.

Chapter 7

In chapter seven, one area of research could be on the state of health that the cows are based off of when the author writes, " The industrialization of cattle-raising and meatpacking over the past two decades has completely altered how beef is produced - and the towns that produce it." This is because people give cattle real grain and steroids so they are bigger creating ore meat and that meat that everyone eats even myself, so what ever the cattle are eating can affect us also. A second example of an area of research from chapter seven could be how one of the most necessary and important jobs needed in today's society is low paying, unsafe and often within a bad environment as well as bad working conditions because the author writes, "Responding to the demands of the fast food and supermarket chains, the meatpacking giants have cut costs by cutting wages. They have turned one of the nation's best-paying manufacturing jobs into one of the lowest-paying, created a migrant industrial workforce of poor immigrants high, tolerated high injury rates, and spawned rural ghettos in the American heartland" which affects some of my friends and I'm sure many families due to their parents working at places like this.