Read 'n' Seed 1: Fast Food Nation

The title of  my book is Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-american meal, written by Eric Schlosser.

This book takes an in depth look at the "American" style of eating, and how our eating culture is affecting our lives.  Eric Schlosser who is an award winning journalists, exposes what is really happening behind the scenes at your local McDonalds, and is taking and even deeper look at where our food is coming from, and how employees are being treated in the fast food industry.  With one out of four people stopping in at a fast food restaurant for a quick fix lunch you can clearly see that more people need to be informed about what they are actually putting in their mouth, this book should be a great tool for many Americans!

The reason I chose this book is because I am really interested in obesity, and one of the factors why the United States is having an obesity epidemic has to do with the foods people are eating.  I am really interested in learning where exactly the food that millions of Americans are consuming is coming from and what is happening to our environment as a result all of these fast food restaurants popping up everywhere.  This book should be very eye opening, and I am excited to start reading it!

Below are three great sites to get more information about this book and the author, Eric Schlosser:
About Eric Schlosser and Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation Review
Fast Food Nation Speech/You Tube Clip

Fast Food Nation has 383 pages and is broken up into 10 chapters.  To break this into 4 sections I will be reading and writing about only two to three chapters at a time.

Hope you are all getting excited about your books too!  This should be a great learning experience for all of us!