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    Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
    The meat in your McDonald's hamburger isn't so mysterious anymore, thanks to Schlosser's muckraking investigation of America's enormous fast food industry. From the little-known world of chemically engineered flavors, to the lawlessness of the meatpacking industry, to the effects of fast food on youth culture and the general economy, Schlosser leaves no French fry unturned.

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