Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Reissues Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, as US Reexamines Ground Beef Quality
March 15 2012 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
With news media shining a spotlight on the quality of US ground
beef, especially the addition of "pink slime" -- beef trimmings
treated with ammonium hydroxide -- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
announced it has reissued Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of
the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser with a new
afterword, on sale this week.
In the afterword Schlosser says: “I’d love to report that the
book is out-of-date, that the many problems it describes have been
solved…That is not the case.” Eric Schlosser has studied the
changes in our industrial food system for years; in 2001, the
bestselling Fast Food Nation first blew the lid off the
fast food industry and exposed the abysmal state of food safety
regulations.
“Consumers have a right to know what they’re eating,” Schlosser
said Wednesday. "The sale of “pink slime” as ground beef, with USDA
approval and without any labeling, is just one more sign of how the
meat industry has gained control of the nation’s regulatory
agencies, at the expense of the American people.”
Fast Food Nation is as relevant today as it was a decade ago.
The book inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food
system, consider its impact on society and, most of all, think for
themselves.
Eric Schlosser is a contributing editor for The Atlantic and the
author of Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness, and Chew on This with
Charles Wilson.
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