Supersize My Fast Food Nation

Years ago I read the book Fast Food Nation which was a long overdue explanation in the decline in the way America eats. We want it fast, we want it cheap, and we want it now. If the chapter on the slaughter houses doesn't get you, then maybe the one about the chemical plant that flavors your food with artificial flavoring will. Click here to read the first chapter of the book.

In the same vein, I enjoyed Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me. Beyond him eating nothing but food from a McDonald's menu for 30 days, he also explores obesity in children and America's School Lunch Program. The film is riddled with shocking statistics such as 60% of all Americans are either overweight or obese, and one in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. These are some very scary odds. To read his other statisticsGo Here.

Well the premise of Fast Food Nation has been turned into a fictional movie. According to the New York Times, the movie is "an ensemble piece with a cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Avril Lavigne and Ethan Hawke, pulls stories from the book and massages them into six intertwining narratives centered on life in a small Colorado town. Plot lines include problems in a meatpacking plant and the life of a teenage fast-food employee. It was shot for around $10 million in Colorado; Austin, Tex., and Mexico."

I for one can't wait.