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Fast Food Nation
  • Published: 14 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241766064
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $26.99

Fast Food Nation

What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World

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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

Twenty-five years ago, Fast Food Nation blew the lid off the industrial food system – exposing how it destroyed landscapes, widened the gap between rich and poor, fuelled an epidemic of obesity and spread its harms throughout the world. Eric Schlosser has visited the labs that create the taste of processed food, spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with horrific safety records, explored the tactics used to target ever younger customers with junk food and revealed the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade. Now in a new afterword, he describes what’s changed and what hasn’t over the past few decades, showing how the corporate forces he first criticized are even more ruthless today. Powerfully argued, explosive and terrifying, Fast Food Nation reveals the full cost of our appetite for instant gratification.
  • Published: 14 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241766064
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • 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. He has helped to produce numerous films, including Fast Food Nation, There Will Be Blood, and Food, Inc. 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