Eric Schlosser
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of "off the books" businesses-from marijuana to migrant workers-brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation.
America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness, the award-winning investigative journalist Eric Schlosser turns his exacting eye to the underbelly of...
5) Food, Inc
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. w/ b&w seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
Author
Publisher
ILR Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xii, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the inequities of restaurant labor in the United States, from low wages and poor employee benefits to sexual harassment, unsafe working conditions, and the hypocrisy of ethical, free-trade restuarants.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn't survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald's? It's true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast food restaurant.
Not only has fast food reached into the toy industry, it's moving into our schools. One out of every five public schools in the United States
...Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
10) Food chains
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America's fields.
