Quote Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
I'd also like to see the movie Food Nation. I've read parts of the book, which were quite interesting. I'm curious to see how they turned the book into a film.
Its awful. Its 95% 'poor mexican immigrant' telenovela. A few seconds of slaughterhouse footage, and Bruce Willis telling people to properly cook hamburger.

Seriously the movie is actually much closer to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, in its primary focus on cattle-ranching, meatpacking, lower-payed migrant labour and their dangerous work conditions (although the movie is concerned with Mexican immigrants instead of Irish) than Schlosser's Fast Food Nation which is primarily concerned with the inner working of a panglobal food company, including target psychology, chemistry, political palm greasing, and the lobbyists that keep the companies working.

Both books are culturally and historically important (The Jungle is largely responsible for the US government enacting the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906... which would later spawn the FDA) and should be read by everyone at some point in their life.