Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should st…

Eric Schlosser
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Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power. ✨ Eric Schlosser (2001). Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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