Editing Fast Food Nation (section)

== Background ==
''Rolling Stone'' asked Schlosser to write an article looking at America through fast food in 1997 after reading his article on migrants in ''Atlantic Monthly''.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/523/schlosser-food-finances.html|title=Q & A: Eric Schlosser, author of 'Fast Food Nation,' on the state of the American food system|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=2018-04-10}}</ref> He then spent nearly three years researching the fast-food industry, from the slaughterhouses and packing plants that turn out the burgers to the minimum-wage workers who cook them to the television commercials that entice children to eat them with the lure of cheap toys and colorful playgrounds.<ref name=":1" /> The experience enraged and appalled him.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-14-fo-37251-story.html|title=The Hamburger Critic (and His Own Critics)|last=SAGON|first=CANDY|date=March 14, 2001|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-04-10|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref><ref name="bestnotes">{{cite web|url=http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Fast_Food_Nation/Fast_Food_Nation03.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615182804/http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Fast_Food_Nation/Fast_Food_Nation03.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 15, 2013 |title=Fast Food Nation, Analysis Book Summary Online Chapter Notes |date=May 16, 2008 |website=TheBestNotes.com |access-date=May 2, 2014 }}</ref>