Eric Schlosser on the 20th Anniversary of 'Fast Food Nation'

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Bryan is joined by journalist and author Eric Schlosser to discuss the 20th anniversary of his book ‘Fast Food Nation.’ They talk through the process of turning his magazine story into a book (2:49), discuss what it was like reporting on the fast food industry from talking to the founder of Carl's Jr. to going undercover at a slaughterhouse (30:20), and then consider how this book has aged 20 years later (1:00:35). Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Eric Schlosser Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.2	Hello media consumers. Welcome to the press box podcast Brian Curtis of the ringer here along with producer Eric
1:23.2	Cuser Vontess. Now if you listen to this podcast you know how much I love to revisit the writing of great books.
1:29.4	Which for me means great nonfiction books. We did a show on John crack hours into the wild. We did a show on David
1:36.5	Halberstams the breaks of the game. For today I picked another favorite. Eric Schlosser's fast food nation.
1:43.7	The dark side of the all American meal fast food nation was published 20 years ago which
1:49.1	qualifies as a peg as we say in journalism. But what makes the book so powerful to me is that it
1:54.9	always seems to have a peg. When Eric paid a secret visit to a slaughterhouse two decades ago
2:00.5	he noticed how close pack workers could accidentally stab each other with long knives they used to cut
2:06.0	the meat. Well during the pandemic these same workers were spreading a deadly virus. I thought a
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