Gold Post #1 ("my choice")

I chose to read Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, because it seemed significantly interesting to me. One of his best quotes, in my opinion, is "If a grown man or woman wants to buy a bacon-double-cheeseburger with large fries and a chocolate shake, well, great, it's a free country. But the fast food chains shouldn't be allowed to spend millions of dollars advertising fatty, unsafe food for children."
Eric Schlosser is an American journalist who was born August 17, 1959 in Manhatten, New York. He spent his childhood in Los Angeles, California wit his fatehr who was a former Wall Street lawyer and later became president of NBC in 1974. Fast Food Nation takes place from roughly the early 1930's to present day.
I remember last year in P.E. when we watched movies such as "SuperSize Me" and "Fast Food, Inc", and learned about the fast food industries and their growth over time along with its tactics, tricks, buisness, founders and much more. It's been nearly a year since I have eaten food from ANY major fast food chain resteraunts such as McDonalds, KFC, Wendy's (etc). I have made this decision based on the ways I learned that they treat their animals and how unhealthy their addicting and life threatening food really is.
It came to my attention that commercials and advertisments for McDonalds (and other such chain fast food places) bend the truth to promote themselves, making promises or statements that may not be necesarily true. They don't lie neccessarily, as much as they just don't state the whole truth. In other words, they don't say everything. For instance, they say "made fresh every day", when really we see through the book (and common sense) that "made fresh" simply means taken out of the boxes and freezer storage and heated up ready to go. Did we really let ourselves think they made their food with love and smiles everyday because it's their passion? Well we shouldn't have, because it's not. Most employees there are working for minimum wage while they are stuggling to balance, failing or dropping out of school. They absolutely don't have smiles on their faces as they get up at the crack of dawn and serve in a greasy, disgusting kitchen while dealing with grumpy customers. Fast Food Nation drew me to read it because of facts like this and what I've been able to learn.
Thanks for reading. -Goldie Murray