Précis: Dale Lasater raises cattle (by typical American standards) in a very unconventional way. Growing up with an anti-beef trust activist like his father his cattle are free range grass fed and are not ankle deep in their own manure. Red Top and In-N-Out are fast food restaurants that took the road less traveled and use better quality ingredients and have better conditions for their workers. Corporations don't have all the power, they are always subject to law like everyone else so change can happen in many ways. One being that legislation can be changed and the things that these companies we know are doing so awfully are changed. Another, more approachable way is our vote, through ever meal we can choose to not eat fast food and by doing so these corporations can change like they have in the past for the want of profits.
Gems: "Throughout the Cold War, America's decentralization system of agriculture, relying upon millions of independent producers, was depicted as the most productive system in the world, as proof of capitalism's inherent superiority" (266)"
"I do not believe,' Teller argued, 'that the great object in life is to make everything cheap" (266)
Thoughts and Questions: This last chapter was probably the most useful and the most uplifting. For one they say that it's not impossible to change the food-ways of our country. And Schlosser tells us how, at first I thought the only way was to make legislation which I thought "well how do I fit into that?", but then he says that we can do this by simply not buying fast food. Obvious idea, but none the less smart, if these corporations are as money-grubbing as they put themselves out to be than if people didn't eat there they would surely listen. This is heartwarming for me because I don't eat fast food and haven't had McDonald's in over six years. What made the epilogue such a great part of the book is that before he was smashing these companies with all their faults and now he tells us how change can happen.
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