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Summary Of Fast Food Nation

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book Fast Food Nation wrote by Eric Schlosser, he revealed how the fast food industry has effected the market in America. J.R. Simplot was born in 1909 and grew up working on his family’s farm in Idaho. At the age of 15, he dropped out of the school and began working in potato house. Soon he become the largest shipper of potatoes in the West. During World War II, he sold dried potatoes and onions to the American military and made a fortune. He invested in frozen food technology in 1905 and start selling frozen food, French Fries to McDonald’s. French fries business become more competitive due to three major companies controlling the market. “The taste of McDonald’s French fries has long been praised by customers, competitors, and even food …show more content…

In 1970, the top four companies combined and slaughtered “21 percent of the nation’s cattle;” “today the top four meatpacking firm … slaughter about 84 percent of the nation’s cattle” (137-138). The next section of the chapter, “The Breasts of Mr. McDonalds” refers to the breed of chicken bred specifically for chicken McNuggets. “The Chicken McNugget turned a bird that once had to be carved at a table into something that could easily be eaten behind the wheel of a car” (139). Noted by the president of ConAgra Poultry, the nation’s third-largest chicken processor acknowledged “the impact of McNuggets was so huge that is changed the industry” (140). However, chicken processors and chicken growers are difficult to continue their business because they make little profit. Furthermore, ranchers had to face growing land and prices and declining rancher culture. In the last section of the chapter, Schlosser mentions Hank, a Colorado rancher, suicide.
“It would be wrong to say that Hank’s death was caused by the consolidating and homogenizing influence of the fast food chains, by monopoly power in the meatpacking industry, by depressed prices in the cattle market, by the economic forces bankrupting independent ranchers...But it would not be entirely wrong”

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