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Movie review: Fast Food Nation ****: Paying the price for Americans' drive-thru lifestyle.

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From: Blade (Toledo, OH)
Date: 20061117
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Byline: Christopher Borrelli

Nov. 17--Before Fast Food Nation, Richard Linklater's new adaptation of Eric Schlosser's 2001 muckraker, there was Upton Sinclair, and he was not above hyperbole. Though a crusading author all his life, Sinclair most famously wrote The Jungle, a blistering expose of the meat-packing industry that led to wide-ranging federal regulations. Twenty-five years after its 1906 publication, Sinclair spoke to a garden club in Toledo. At 57, his crusade against bad meat and the bad men who sell bad meat had bloomed into fiery rhetoric. If a Republican is ...

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