Eric Schlosser (born 1959) is an American journalist and author. His most famous book to date is Fast Food Nation, an exposé on the practices of the fast food industry, especially focusing on its sanitary conditions and treatment of workers. Fast Food Nation evolved from a two-part article in Rolling Stone Magazine. He has also written Reefer Madness, a book about the three biggest sectors of the American black market: marijuana, migrant labor and pornography. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Fast Food Nation, paperback edition Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is a book by Eric Schlosser, first serialized by Rolling Stone in 1999. ... Expose may mean: exposure, such as to weather or radiation, or in photography an exposé, in investigative journalism Exposé, in Mac OS X the dance music band Exposé Exposés debut album Exposé This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same... Fast food is food prepared and served quickly at a fast-food restaurant or shop at low cost. ... This article is about the music magazine. ... Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (2003) is a book written by Eric Schlosser. ... The black market or underground market is the part of economic activity involving illegal dealings, typically the buying and selling of merchandise or services (for example sexual services in many countries) illegally. ... Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. ... A foreign worker (cf expatriate), is a person who works in a country other than the one of which he or she is a citizen. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (from Greek πορνη prostitute and γραφία written material) (also informally referred to as porn or porno) is the representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ...

As an aspiring playwright Schlosser wrote the play Americans in 1985. Though it deals with the theme of American imperialism at the beginning of the 20th century, the piece has been given new relevance by international events involving the U.S. in recent years. It features Leon Czolgosz, William McKinley's assassin, who kills the President in anger over U.S. occupation of the Philippines. Americans was produced in 2003, but is not available in the United States. Photograph of Leon Czolgosz. ... William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. ...

He was born in Manhattan, New York and spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, California. His father, Herbert Schlosser, was a former Wall Street lawyer, then turned broadcaster who became the President of NBC in 1974. For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... Nickname City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Government Country State County United States California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area  - City    - Land    - Water  - Urban 1,290. ... NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ...

Eric Schlosser studied at Princeton (American History) and Oxford (British Imperial History). After working for a New York film company, he began a journalism career with Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts. He now lives in California and is working on a book about the prison system. Schlosser is married to Shauna Redford, daughter of Robert Redford, and has two children. Princeton University is a coeducational private university located on an extensive campus mostly in the Borough of Princeton and partly in the Princeton Township in New Jersey, United States. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ... Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Official website: www. ... Robert Redford Charles Robert Redford Jr. ...

One to make rare appearances in public, Schlosser appears in an interview for the DVD of Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, having a one on one discussion with the filmmaker about the fast food industry. This is in reference to Schlosser's refusal to appear in the documentary, who agreed to be interviewed by Spurlock. Morgan Spurlock, in a promotional picture for Super Size Me Morgan Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American independent film director, and screenwriter, known for the documentary film Super Size Me, in which he attempted to demonstrate the negative health effects of McDonalds food. ... Super Size Me movie poster. ...

Food Industry Public Relations Campaign Against Eric Schlosser

In May, 2006, Schlosser and his co-author Charles Wilson released a childrens book titled "Chew On This." The book, along with increasing publicity for an upcoming Hollywood movie based on "Fast Food Nation," resulted in the food industry launching a major public relations attack on Schlosser personally and on his work. As part of the campaign, the food industry set up the www.bestfoodnation.comweb site.

• Janet Adamy and Richard Gibson, Flak Over 'Fast Food Nation' U.S. Food Manufacturers Rally To Oppose a Film and a Book That Blame Them for Obesity, May 18, 2006.

• Crain's Chicago Business, Authors and McDonald's Exchange More Volleys, June 2, 2006