Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser, Allen Lane, 2001

Oh, its all very disturbing - fries that have a higher beef fat content than hamburgers, the high mortality of fast food restaurant workers, multiple injuries in met processing planes, union blocking, microbes that liquefy your brain and internal organs. There are loads of juicy tit-bits crammed into Fast Food Nation, most of which will persuade you never to take a bite out of fast food again!

Eric Schlosser starts at the beginning, and having described the rise of the fast food industry from the first hot dog carts to the mega corporations of today, he goes through the entire fast food process from the soul destroying farming methods through the gut wrenching food preparation to the down right unethical treatment of staff.

Strangely he manages to keep a lid on the sensationalism that inevitably arising from such disturbing revelations, and this leaves he narrative confidence inspiring. But it really is enough to put you off McDonalds for life.