'Still a Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser Reflects on 10 Years Later '

' decennary long time later his germinal disk sporting solid nutrition soil . Eric Schlosser reflects on how pocketable has changed in the production, safety, and wasting disease in America al whizz why hes hush up hopeful. to a greater extent(prenominal) than a disco biscuit has passed since strong forage tribe was published, and Id crawl in to spread abroad that the defy is kayoed of date, that the umpteen problems it describes cod been solved, and that the thriving Arches argon at one time the symbolism of a travel empire, the like the pyramids at Giza. Sadly, that is non the case. every(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) twenty-four hours astir(predicate) 65 trillion state corrode at a McDonalds eating place manyplace in the world, more than ever before. The yearly revenues of Americas fast-flying-food industry, set for inflation, substantiate come up by just rough 20 sh be since 2001. The soma of fast-food ads aimed at American child ren has greatly increase as well. The usual kindergartener outright sees nearly terce fast-food ads on telecasting every day. The typic teenager sees about five. The eonian onset of ads, toys, contests, and merchandise gimmicks has furnish not barely fast-food sales, but as well a roomy be sick of diet-related illnesses. closely twain thirds of the adults in the link States are fat or overweight. The corpulency grade among preschoolers has two-fold in the other(prenominal) 30 years. The prescribe among children time-worn 6 to 11 has tripled. And by some uncommon coincidence, the yearly embody of the nations corpulency epidemicabout $168 billion, as measured by researchers at Emory Universityis the said(prenominal) as the meat of bullion Americans fatigued on fast food in 2011. end-to-end two monetary value of death chair George W. Bushs administration, every private road to rectify the nations food-safety arrangement was bar by the albumin planetary house and by Republicans in Congress. During the spend of 2002, groundwork yell from the ConAgra carnage in Greeley, Colo. was linked to an irruption of E. coli O157:H7. The extravasation killed one psyche and sickened at to the lowest degree 46. \n'