Fast Food Nation worth seeing

If Ashley Fruno’s animal activism inspires you to think more about how KFC treats its chickens, check out Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, showing at theatres now. You’ll never eat a fast-food burger ever again.

Hamburger meat contaminated with E.coli happens when illegal migrants, Wilmer Valderrama (That 70s Show) and Catalina Sandino Moreno (Love in the Time of Cholera, now filming) are forced to take risks while working fast at the abattoir; otherwise they face deportation. What’s disturbing about this film is not the spilling intestinal sacs of the kill floor but the corruption of the meat plant supervisor as he sexually exploits female meat plant workers.

Ashley Johnson plays Amber, who pushes burgers at Mickey’s restaurant, shines brightly in this film when she becomes politicized and sets cattle free at a Colorado feedlot. I’d like to see her take on KFC!