Author: People, animals, environment in US suffer from fast food

YOUNGSTOWN

If more people were aware of where their fast food comes from and how it’s produced, they would likely think twice before ordering that Big Mac or Whopper, an investigative journalist, author and filmmaker says.

The fast-food industry has transformed what we eat, where we eat and what we look like, Eric Scholsser said during a free lecture Wednesday at Edward W. Powers Auditorium.

The author of the 2001 New York Times best-selling book “Fast Food Nation” that also was a 2006 feature film explained the harm the fast-food business and industrial agriculture system have caused to people, animals and the environment in the United States during the last 40 years.

His presentation was part of Youngstown State University’s Skeggs Lecture Series.

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