Ali Macalady
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Ali Macalady lives, writes, and eats in New Haven, Conn.
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The Eat Generation
Ali Macalady reviews Safe Food by Marion Nestle and The Pleasures of Slow Food by Corby Kummer 0
Posted 6 years, 6 months agoIn 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation -- an expose of America's increasingly consolidated and industrialized food system, and how that system contributes to a whole range of societal ills, from obesity and resistance to antibiotics to urban sprawl, habitat destruction, and poor labor conditions. The book was a smashing success -- 66 weeks and running on the New York Times bestseller list -- and it captured the nation's attention in a way no book about food has since Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the 1906 classic about the Chicago meatpacking industry.