Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defecti…

Eric Schlosser
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Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves. ✨ Eric Schlosser (2001). Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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