Fast food : the good, the bad and the hungry / Andrew F. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Andrew F., 1946- author.

Series:

Food controversies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convenience foods.

Food industry and trade.

Fast food restaurants.

Physical Description:

224 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2016.

Summary:

"Andrew F. Smith explores why the fast food industry has been so successful and examines the myriad ethical lines it has crossed to become so. As he shows, fast food - plain and simple - devised a perfect retail model, one that works everywhere, providing highly flavored calories with speed, economy, and convenience. But there is no such thing as a free lunch, they say, and the costs with fast food have been enormous: an assault on proper nutrition, a minimum-wage labor standard, and a powerful pressure on farmers and ranchers to deploy some of the worst agricultural practices in history. As Smith shows, we have long known about these problems, and the fast food industry for nearly all of its existence has been beset with scathing exposés, boycotts, protests, and government interventions, which they have sometimes met with real changes but more often with token gestures, blame-passing, and an unrelenting gauntlet of lawyers and lobbyists."--Publisher description.

Contents:

The beginning

Globalization

Health

Marketing

Environment

Meat

Labour

The future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213), filmography (page 214) , and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

ISBN:

9781780235745

1780235747

OCLC:

919482950