Precis:2nd Chunk Fast Food Nation

Erick Schlosser's 2005 book, Fast Food Nation, explains the kinds of supplies the restaurants need for the food, in other words how and from where the food is made. He explains the process in a very factual and anecdotal way, by the describing the many companies that contribute to these fast food chains. Now in days the fast food has been created with artificial flavors, before everything was cooked in a very natural way, but now that competition is an everyday part of life in fast food chains; time and money is very important. Fast food restaurants look for good quality frozen food that can please, attract more customers, save time and money. For this reason food corporations like the potato companies attempt to make different types of fries, frozen fries that still taste good when reheated and also the companies tend to try to make new technology that will have a faster way of cooking the food and freezing them. Besides making faster methods the flavor is important also. Fast food chains have companies that they go to that supply them or make new artificial flavor for them. When a fast food company has new flavor food people tend to but it if it is something that they like. An example is the strawberry shake, it's artificial flavor yet people buy it because it still taste like the strawberry. At times this is good, the use of artificial flavors because, as Schlosser explains, that some fruit can contain a deadly poison and for that reason the artificial flavor is created. Not only is flavor the only issue but cattle and the low payment that ranchers and growers receive for their cattle. Some growers, is estimated that they make $12,000 a year (very low). Schlosser describes the suffrage and struggle of the growers and animals due to the whole process of the food chains through a very informative
Tone: Informative
Rhetorical Terms: imagery: "Hank was 42 years old and handsome enough to be a Hollywood cowboy, tall and rugged, wearing blue jeans, old boots, and a big white hat."
allusion: "The 1960s were the heyday of artificial flavors."
imagery: "J.R. Simplot has the sly grin of a gambler who's scored big."
Simile/allusion: "The dehydrated onion powder, he later recalled, was like "gold dust."
Discussion Questions: Clarification: How do restaurants and ranchers/suppliers tackle the same problem of wages?
Application: How can fast food affect us with all the new chemicals being invented?
Style: Does Schlossers informative book help people think twice before buying fast food?
Quotation: "I just hung on" (pg.116)