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Eric Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author. His most famous book is Fast Food Nation, an exposé on the practices of the fast food industry, with a special focus 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. 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. Schlosser was born in Manhattan, New York and spent his childhood there and in Seattle, Washington. His father, Herbert Schlosser, was a former Wall Street lawyer, then turned broadcaster who became the President of NBC in 1974. Eric Schlosser studied at Princeton University and Oxford. 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. 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. He refused to appear in the documentary itself and rarely makes appearances in public.
Food Industry Reaction In May 2006, Schlosser and his co-author Charles Wilson released a children's book entitled "Chew On This." The book, along with increasing publicity for an upcoming Hollywood movie based on "Fast Food Nation," resulted in 18 food industry associations launching the www.bestfoodnation.com website as part of a major public relations campaign. The site presents statements about health and labour practices in the American beef, pork, dairy, potato and other industries. One page includes two press releases accusing Schlosser of publishing misinformation*. However, few of the site's responses to the "myths" it accuses Scholosser and his allies of propagating actually answer any of the issues raised in his writings. | ||||||||
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