Fast Food Nation

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

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Penguin
14 April 2026

Society & Social Sciences; Cultural studies; Family & health

A new anniversary edition of Eric Schlosser's international bestselling expose of how the fast food industry has shaped the world

Twenty-five years ago, Fast Food Nation blew the lid off the industrial food system - exposing how it destroyed landscapes, widened the gap between rich and poor, fuelled an epidemic of obesity and spread its harms throughout the world. Eric Schlosser has visited the labs that create the taste of processed food, spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with horrific safety records, explored the tactics used to target ever younger customers with junk food and revealed the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade. Now in a new afterword, he describes what's changed and what hasn't over the past few decades, showing how the corporate forces he first criticized are even more ruthless today. Powerfully argued, explosive and terrifying, Fast Food Nation reveals the full cost of our appetite for instant gratification.

By: Eric Schlosser
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9780241766064
ISBN 10: 0241766060
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 14 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Eric Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), Command and Control (2013), and Gods of Metal (2015). Command and Control was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. He's helped to produce numerous films, including Fast Food Nation, There Will Be Blood, and Food, Inc. Two of his plays, Americans and We the People, have been staged in London. He is currently at work on a book about prisons.

Reviews for Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser changed the way we ate * Guardian * Intelligent, impeccably researched, terrifyingly detailed * The Times * Fast Food Nation lifted the polystyrene lid on the global fast food industry ... and sparked a storm * Observer * Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism * Daily Telegraph * Schlosser's reportage is as good as it gets * GQ * Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts * Los Angeles Times *