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Fast food has become an almost inextractible part of America life. From a sociological perspective fast food has, in fact, become the
norm rather than the exception. Fast food restaurants are so impregnated into our cultural landscape that we think nothing about dropping in on a daily basis to pollute our
bodies with saturate fats, high levels of sodium, as well as monosodium glutanate, and other potentially toxic food additives. Our children are apparently inoculated at birth to recognize the
beckoning call of the golden arches and the standardized features of other players in the fast food industry. Our adults have come to depend on the speed and simplicity
of the fast food industry to meet one of the most basic of their familys needs, that of nourishment. In addition to fast food becoming the sociological norm and
perpetuating both social and cultural change, it also thrives, on the social stratification which characterizes our nation. It is, in fact, the less socioeconomically advantaged members of our society
who have the potential to be most adversely affected by the industry. Author Eric Schlosser is among one of just a handful
of writers to explore this darkest side of the fast food industry, its impact on the most socioeconomically disadvantaged member of U.S. society. Schlossers (2002) "Fast Food Nation: The
Dark Side of the All-American Meal" provides an exemplary investigation into the industry which has so thoroughly impregnated American culture changing our culture and society as a whole to one
for which the norm is fast food. Schlossers (2002) contentions revolve around three themes: the cultural impregnation of fast food, the industrys tendency to prey on the lower