Greetings:

This article in the March 23, 2004 Sydney Morning Herald reminded me of the investigative book FAST FOOD NATION:

http://tinylink.com/?f4ZDAaJVbM

If any of you (or your children) still eat at places like McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell, or Wendy's --- you need to read FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser:

http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/books/ schlosser.html

This is perhaps the most damaging book that has ever been written, to those in the business of selling fat and empty calories.

When I was in high school, one of my friends became an assistant manager at McDonald's. He went to their corporate mind-control center, which they call "Hamburger University." I got to read the secret management training manuals, and their contents were astounding. Corporate managenment controls everything about their employees, including the way in which they think.

This was around the time of the infamous "milk shake" incident, when McDonald's was taken to court over their calling their shakes "milk shakes," and this was because those things contain no milk. My friend also showed me the cardboard boxes, in which the shake contents arrive at the individual restaurants.

Stamped on the side were the words:

"Caution: Contains Liquid Plastic"

I was told that was required by the FDA, and that it has since been changed.

This incident occurred around the same time that I began to question many things about the world around me. Reading the McDonald's Management Training materials was eye-opening, to say the least.

"Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser Houghton-Mifflin Company 356 pages, published 2001 ISBN # 0-965-18838-8

Incidentally, Eric Schlosser's follow-up to Fast Food Nation, was a book entitled "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market," which was published in 2003. I would recommend BOTH books, both of which I have personally read.

"Reefer Madness" by Eric Schlosser Houghton-Mifflin Company 310 pages, published 2003 ISBN # 0-618-33466-1

http://tinylink.com/?b1Zfp2HjUJ

The most egregious food substance that has ever been foisted upon America is ASPARTAME --- which slowly poisons its' users when the aspartic acid breaks down into formaldehyde and other toxins. In fact, of all the complaints the FDA receives concerning food additives, 75% of the total concern ASPARTAME.

Here is a great site on the many dangers of ASPARTAME:

http:// http://www.dorway.com

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