Twenty Years Ago, Teenage Boys In The

I Went Into The Library And Read About Fast Food And Became Amazed By All The Stuff I Didn't Know. I Learned That There Is A Whole World Behind The Counter That, It Seemed To Me, Has Been Deliberately Hidden From The Public.

A Generation Ago, Three-quarters Of The Money Used To Buy Food In The United States Was Spent To Prepare Meals At Home. Today About Half Of The Money Used To Buy Food Is Spent At Restaurants--mainly At Fast Food Restaurants.

As An Investigative Reporter, I'm Trying To Uncover Things And Expose Them To Create A Dialogue.

Future Historians, I Hope, Will Consider The American Fast Food Industry A Relic Of The Twentieth Century--a Set Of Attitudes, Systems, And Beliefs That Emerged From Postwar Southern California, That Embodied Its Limitless Faith In Technology, That Quickly Spread Across The Globe, Flourished Briefly, And Then Receded, Once Its True Costs Became Clear And Its Thinking Became Obsolete.

As A Matter Of Fact, Most Cases Of Food Poisoning Are Never Linked Back To Their Source.