I finally finished reading this book (First Perennial edition with the a new afterword), and can recommend it to anyone who eats fast food but don’t know exactly what they are eating. Fast Food Nation reveals a lot about how fast food giants such as McD has changed not just the fast food industry, but the industries supporting it (e.g. meatpacking industry) as well as the health of not just US citizens but people of nations where (mostly) American fast food are served. Needless to say the book does not present the fast food industry in a good light, but I believe the author has done a fair job in reporting the problems of the industry.
Since the book mostly deals with the fast food industry in the US (with only one chapter covering overseas), I would also like to see studies (books or documentaries) of how fast food is affecting other nations, especially Japan and China.
