Grand Finale

I just finished the final chapter of Fast Food Nation entitled "Global Realization/Have it your way." The chapter opens up with a discussion of Plaven Germany and it's history. This part of Germany was the first place outside of Bavaria to adhear to Nazi regime, until 1990 when it was the first town in East Germany to host a McDonald's restaurant. I think this depiction of Nazi Germany being a host to McDonalds, essentially comparing the two and if you think about the way in which both the Nazi movement lead by Adolf Hitler and McDonalds gained substantial amounts of global influence and rapidly after both were introduced. This comparison was captivating and in my opinion the best way to begin the end of this trechorously informative novel. This novel explores the many faces of the incredibly lucrative fast food industry, ultimatly holding the US responsible for its Global infectious spread. Beginning with fast food's founding fathers, Carl Karcher bought a single hot dog stand in California and expanded. This expansion is the key to the Fast Food industry's sucess,  like the mass production and distribution of the ingredients by which the food is put together on a makeshift assembly line. I was horrified at the way in which the large coorporations today treat their employees and even more horrified by the conditions of the Slaughterhouse examined in the High Planes in Chapter 8. My favorite chapter in the novel however was definatly Chapter 9: Whats in the Meat, because after reading it, I swore off fast food perminantly. 35 million pounds of ground beef being recalled by Hudson Foods because of an E Coli outbreak! Yuk.