{"id":5753,"date":"2026-01-18T18:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:34:50","slug":"hard-to-digest-we-still-live-in-fast-food-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/18\/hard-to-digest-we-still-live-in-fast-food-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eric Schlosser reflects on the 25th anniversary of his book <em>Fast Food Nation<\/em>, arguing that the industrial food system&#8217;s dangers have intensified through corporate consolidation and a lack of transparency. Schlosser criticizes the &#8220;corporate capture&#8221; of government agencies, noting that while the new administration promises to &#8220;Make America Healthy Again,&#8221; its proposed budget cuts to the CDC and FDA could cripple essential public health oversight. Ultimately, he calls for &#8220;true-cost accounting&#8221; to expose the hidden health and environmental expenses of cheap food, which he estimates are nearly triple the price paid at the register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 6, 2026 <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/jan\/06\/we-still-live-in-fast-food-nation-eric-schlosser\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Schlosser reflects on the 25th anniversary of his book Fast Food Nation, arguing that the industrial food system&#8217;s dangers have intensified through corporate consolidation and a lack of transparency. Schlosser criticizes the &#8220;corporate capture&#8221; of government agencies, noting that while the new administration promises to &#8220;Make America Healthy Again,&#8221; its proposed budget cuts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5758,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions\/5758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}