Fast Food Nation author, investigative journalist and professional muckraker Eric Schlosser will give a talk on food justice, worker justice and immigrant justice at Occidental College. The college will also present him with an honorary degree at the event, which is free and open to the public with RSVP at: http://schlosser.eventbrite.com
Schlosser's lecture will continue the discussion on poverty and the need for social justice in LA through the prism of how food, workplace, and immigrant issues intersect in the food system, including the fast-food industry, which he chronicled in his 2001 best-selling book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. The book, which explains the rise and global dominance of the American fast-food industry, has been compared to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle,
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