Nick's Non-fiction

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! There are over 14,000 of these in the continental United States. No, not hospitals, not food banks, not national parks… McDonalds! Since the 1950s America has embraced the takeover of burger-town and our health records reflect it. In Eric Schlosser’s bestseller Fast Food Nation we examine how the American diet has changed more in the past 40 years than in the past 40k. While the Roman republic was fed by citizen farmers, people of the American empire couldn't be more disconnected from their food. This Upton Sinclair style investigation visits the countries biggest slaughter houses and Hamburger University to see how in under 50 years our highways were astroturfed into a repetitive fast food Anywhere USA. Todays show takes us to Aberdeen, Idaho, home to the biggest potato farm in the observable universe. Here we learn what makes the fries taste so good and who owns these plantations alongside 85k other acres of land. Schlosser t