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Fast Food Nation
  • Published: 14 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241766064
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $26.99

Fast Food Nation

What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World

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14 Apr 2026
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6 May 2002
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6 May 2002
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A new anniversary edition of Eric Schlosser’s international bestselling exposé of how the fast food industry has shaped the world

‘The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.’

This landmark work of reportage exposed how a handful of fast-food giants came to dominate America and remake the world in their image: eroding wages, damaging consumers’ health and wrecking the environment. From talking to workers at meatpacking plants with shocking safety records to revealing the tactics used to target ever-younger customers, Eric Schlosser’s blend of humane storytelling and meticulous research encouraged millions to question the industrial food system, and to rethink the way they eat.
  • Published: 14 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241766064
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), Command and Control (2013), and Gods of Metal (2015). Command and Control was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Two of his plays, Americans and We the People, have been staged in London. He is currently at work on a book about prisons.

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Praise for Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser changed the way we ate

Guardian

Intelligent, impeccably researched, terrifyingly detailed

The Times

Fast Food Nation lifted the polystyrene lid on the global fast food industry ... and sparked a storm

Observer

Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism

Daily Telegraph

Schlosser's reportage is as good as it gets

GQ

Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts

Los Angeles Times
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