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“Sides of beef suspended from an overhead trolley swing toward a group of men. Each worker has a large knife in one hand and a steel hook in the other. They grab the meat with their hooks and attack it fiercely with their knives. As they hack away, using all their strength, grunting, the place suddenly feels different, primordial. The machinery seems beside the point, and what’s going on before me has been going on for thousands of years—the meat, the hook, the knife, men straining to cut more meat. On the kill floor, what I see no longer unfolds in a logical manner. It’s one strange image after another. A worker with a power saw slices cattle into halves as though they were two-by-fours, and then the halves swing by me into the cooler. It feels like a slaughterhouse now. Dozens of cattle, stripped of their skins, dangle on chains from their hind legs. My host stops and asks how I feel, if I want to go any further. This is where some people get sick.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“We used to say humorously, ‘Why don’t they put a bazooka on their Sherman, instead of their short-barrel 75mm?’ That was not entirely a joke.”
― Sprech Media, SS Panzer SS Inferno - Eyewitness Panzer Crews - Normandy to Berlin: Part 2 of 'SS Panzer SS Voices'

“A nationwide study published by the USDA in 1996 found that 7.5 percent of the ground beef samples taken at processing plants were contaminated with Salmonella, 11.7 percent were contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, 30 percent were contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus, and 53.3 percent were contaminated with Clostridium perfringens.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“The impact of McDonald’s on the way we live today is hard to overstate. The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal