Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

There are over 14,000 of these in the continental United States. No, not hospitals, not food banks, not national parks… McDonalds! Since the 1950s America has embraced the takeover of burger-town and our health records reflect it. In Eric Schlosser’s bestseller Fast Food Nation we examine how the American diet has changed more in the past 40 years than in the past 40k. While the Roman republic was fed by citizen farmers, people of the American empire couldn't be more disconnected from their food. This Upton Sinclair style investigation visits the countries biggest slaughter houses and Hamburger University to see how in under 50 years our highways were astroturfed into a repetitive fast food Anywhere USA.

Todays show takes us to Aberdeen, Idaho, home to the biggest potato farm in the observable universe. Here we learn what makes the fries taste so good and who owns these plantations alongside 85k other acres of land. Schlosser tackles the monopoly on meat, where before 1980 the top four producers made up 21% of the market, now they compose 84% of all meat. This author was in the Super Size me film, has avoided meat libel law suits, remained ahead of the curve all to expose the truth behind the tendies. Have a fat and happy thanksgiving this year, try to lay off the Soylent Green.

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00:55 Introduction

03:15 About the Author

06:05 Ch1: Founding Fathers

15:30 Ch2: Your Trusted Friends

25:15 Ch3: Behind the Counter

29:30 Ch4: Franchise

31:30 Ch5: Why the Fries Taste So Good

35:45 Ch6: Home on the Range

37:30 Ch7: Cogs in the Great Machine

39:45 Ch8: The Most Dangerous Job

43:40 Ch9: Whats in the Meat?

47:00 Ch10: Global Realization

52:05 Ch11: Have it Your Way

56:15 Next Time & Goodbye!

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