Cogs in the Great Machine

A chapter out of Schlosser's book, 'Fast Food Nation', this pocket-sized read is an acessable but confronting look at just what goes on in the American meat industry. Thoroughly researched, with both hard statistics and even-handed interviews, Cogs in the Great Machine is a definite eye-opener for those of us who just presume the situation (with old/diseased meat being sold, lax safety standards for workers, underhand dealings between the industry execs and the processing owners etc.) is bad, until we find out it is even worse…