Fast Food Nation - Book Report/Review Example

n enough to power small city; underground water reservoirs with gallons in the millions; fitness center; barbershop, dentist’s office, a chapel and cafeteria. Once in a while, the cafeteria food bores those in the base and they often order out, Domino pizzas often among the menu. The base, an operations center, tracks all objects that enter North American airspace and it is at the heart of the nation’s early warning system. Should, therefore, God-forbid, Armageddon ensue, future archeologists would find among the rubble not only military hardware, but other clues to our civilization’s character – Big King wrappers, Barbeque Wing bones, red, blue and white parts of a pizza box from Domino’s among others (Schlosser 2).

Over the last 40 years, the fast food industry has infiltrated all avenues of the American social structure. The industry, which traces its origins to a handful of modest stands in southern California, begun by selling hotdogs and hamburgers; now it is present in every corner of the American nation. They sell a broad range of foodstuff; this wherever customers, willing to pay, are found. The food is sold at all social areas including entertainments spots, transport avenues, education centers, gas stations, sports arenas and restaurants among other places.

The resultant outcome has been the average annual American expenditure that runs into the billions, with 1970 clocking the $6 billion mark and in 2000, the expenditure peaked at $110 billion (Schlosser 57). Surveys conducted have revealed that Americans are spending more on fast foods than on other social aspects such as – new cars, computer software, higher education, newspapers, books, movies among others. The highly paced scientific and technological advances present in the American society have ensured an automated food production and delivery system.

This has enabled a transformation from many scattered independent restaurants to a few, highly automated uniform franchises. Because