Eric Schlosser

In 1998 journalist Eric Schlosser wrote a two-part exposé for Rolling Stone on the fast-food industry’s poverty wages, child marketing, and chemical additives. A 2001 book expanding his reporting on the subject, Fast Food Nation, drew comparisons to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. “The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power,” Schlosser wrote. “The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”