As Schlosser continued by offering his audience more shocking insight, he touched upon describing the feedlots from these huge slaughter houses and how because of waste contamination and runoff, the ending result produces water pollution which in turn effects the people that live near by if they use that for their water supply. This to me was a perfect example of toxic discourse. I remember Schlosser quoting Ray Croc saying that if he saw his neighbor drowning with his/her business, that he'd be the first to go over and put a running hose in their mouths. A slightly humorous quote at first, but consider the lack of care that Schlosser talked about in regard to the fast food industry, this type of action doesn't seem to sadistic to consider when presented with the facts.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Eric Schlosser's lecture at Ohio University
For owning Fast Food Nation and seeing movies like Super Size Me, I felt like I knew a little of what Schlosser's lecture would consist of. To a point that was true, and then I was truly being informed as he started giving the hard facts about the fast food industry. To a point, his lecture connected nicely with a lot of what we're talking about in class. For example: toxic discourse and how the impact of the fast food industry is impacting our country, health, well-being, society, children, and the world. Schlosser hit on the fact that with huge companies such as McDonald's, there is a huge lack of information that's being given to the public and the ending result show the customer being misinformed by the information that they should know.
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Evan, yeah the quote from Ray Croc was very telling as to the mentality of most people in that industry. And doesn't it seem weird and counter intuitive that the food system is now described with terms like industry? It automatically makes you think of factories and mills and pollution. I thought it was very important that Schlosser talked so much about the health effects of food on children and adults, it is truly astounding how bad the food is in terms of nutrition. I remember in the film Super Size Me that the narrator mentioned a feeling of addiction for the food, even though he didn't really like it.
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