I heard about this book on the Diggnation Podcast… after that, I whatched the movie then bought the book… I’m halfway thru the book and I found it very interesting, even that I don’t like to read that much.
I also want to share with you guys that this is my 3rd week without eating in a Fast Food Free and drinking Coke and/or Pepsi.
If you find on Sale, buy it and read it! Good stuff.
Good book. Awful movie.
A good follow-up read would be Omnivore’s Dilemma, if you’re so inclined.
Fast Food Nation > Supersize Me > Thank You for Smoking > Mad Men > Fast Food Nation …
What’s next??? “Supersize Me: The Musical”
Actually, that would be pretty funny. They could use music by Primus: “Pork Soda” “Seas of Cheese” “Hamburger Train” and so on.
Why do you hate Darwin? 
One of my fav books… if you do a search here, you’ll find it’s been mentioned many times.
I suspect Morgan would love to to a musical version of Supersize Me just as long as he got to be the person making a documentary of the entire development process.
They could use music by Primus: “Pork Soda” “Seas of Cheese” “Hamburger Train” and so on.
I’m giving you points, err Crazy Mad Phat Props for mentioning Primus. In college I hate a teammate with the last name Mudd (Freshman, no less). We used to terrorize him with the “My name is mud …” Primus lyrics. Man, that was fun. I have never seen a person get so pissed off about something so little, but I guess that’s probably why it was so fun.
Does Primus’s “Big Brown Beaver” count as a song about something you eat? eyebrow raise
around the time Fast Food Nation was published, maybe 6 or 7 yrs ago, I took my then 12 year old son to a short mtn bike race. As I rode, he stayed around the start/finish line but quickly became bored and decided to see how my nice $75 floor pump worked so he took it apart. He could not get it to work after re-assembling it. AS a 12 year old he could not pay me for a new pump, so I had him read Fast Food Nation instead.
He has not been to McDonald’s since and it really did make him look at food differently.
I suspect Morgan would love to to a musical version of Supersize Me just as long as he got to be the person making a documentary of the entire development process.
He’d better get over to my house quick; I already have an outline and my girlfriend has begun writing two songs.
In true Greek chorus fashion, I have cheerleaders in yellow and red outfits singing “It’s alright! It’s okay! You can eat us every day!”
Great book. I’ve eaten fast food 4 times in the 6 years since I read it. The funny thing is, when you stop eating that stuff and then try it, it actually tastes like the shit it really is.
I heard about this book on the Diggnation Podcast… after that, I whatched the movie then bought the book… I’m halfway thru the book and I found it very interesting, even that I don’t like to read that much.
I thought this book was terrible. It is written from a super-liberal anti-capitalist point of view and makes no effort to be a balanced presentation of facts. Also, I thought the book was going to be more about fast food’s link to the health of our nation, but it was more a book about how big businesses are bad. If you are fan of Michael Moore, you will probably love this book though.
I got that from the reviews I read at book websites also.
Really, I’d just rather read a sports nutrition book by Nancy Clark or something and be left with 50 ideas I can implement quickly and without pain.
I thought this book was terrible. It is written from a super-liberal anti-capitalist point of view and makes no effort to be a balanced presentation of facts. Also, I thought the book was going to be more about fast food’s link to the health of our nation, but it was more a book about how big businesses are bad. If you are fan of Michael Moore, you will probably love this book though.
I’m reading the book now and I really like it. Maybe you can balance the facts for me? Because although I don’t consider myself a super-liberal anti-capitalist, this book makes it very difficult for me to defend anything that the meat packing industry, in conjunction with the government, has done. So by all means, balance the facts for me.
And for the record, I’m not a big fan of Michael Moore. But I do think his documentaries make you think. And that’s not a bad thing.
I didn’t see the book as anti-capitalist. It was more along the lines of “These companies are huge influences in so many peoples’ lives, so why can’t they do more to actually make peoples’ lives better?”
There was almost a wistfulness to it when he was talking about the pizza franchise owner trying to help his employees go to college, and when he was talking about how fast food jobs had become prime employment in post-Wall Soviet Bloc countries.
I was disappointed in the movie- it had its own, harder, political agenda and missed the point of the source material.
I’m reading the book now and I really like it. Maybe you can balance the facts for me? Because although I don’t consider myself a super-liberal anti-capitalist, this book makes it very difficult for me to defend anything that the meat packing industry, in conjunction with the government, has done. So by all means, balance the facts for me.
And for the record, I’m not a big fan of Michael Moore. But I do think his documentaries make you think. And that’s not a bad thing.
It’s been about 2 years since I’ve read the book, and I’m certainly not going to pick it up again so I can pick its flaws on an internet forum. Besides that, you are referencing one small section of the book - meatpacking. I don’t recall any specific problems with that section, but I do know, like every other part of the book, he made no effort at a balanced presentation. My biggest problem with the book was the message that big businesses are bad and small businesses are good, which is one of the central themes throughout the book and creeps its way into nearly every subject. His ideas on capitalism run counter to both fact and everything that our country stands for. My favorite part was when he blamed big business on the suicide of the cattle rancher. Further still, the topic of the book is very misleading. Like I said, they make you think it is a book about fast food’s link to our nation’s health. This part of the book is maybe 25% or less of the total.