Category: Book analysis

According to the book *Fast Food Nation*, consumers spent over $110 billion on fast food by the year 2000, a massive increase from $6 billion in 1970. Eric Schlosser’s seminal work argues that this industry has a dark side, profoundly reshaping American society in numerous, often detrimental ways.

In 2024, the film *Food, Inc. 2* further highlighted the issues Michael Pollan's book originally exposed nearly two decades prior, revealing a food system that has become even more consolidated and opaque. In *The Omnivore's Dilemma*, Pollan reveals that the industrial food chain is fundamentally unnatural, unsustainable, and largely based on a single crop: corn.