Fast Food Nation: What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World (57 page)

COEX.
See
Chain Operators Exchange (COEX)

Coffey, Allen, Jr.,
101

Colombia,
244

Colorado,
1–2
,
7
,
59–66

Colorado Cattlemen’s Association,
144–45

Colorado Restaurant Association,
73

Colorado Springs,
1–2
,
7
,
59–66

Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph
,
63

Colorado Springs Independent,
57

Colorado Springs Sun
,
63

Columbia Film Studio,
19

Columbia/HCA,
5

Columbus, Christopher,
124

Comfort foods,
123

“Committee for Employment Opportunities,”
72

Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles
(Noebel),
65

ConAgra: and contaminated meat,
219
;

and fast food conventions,
236
;

fraudulent actions of,
159–60
;

as french fry producer,
158
;

and illegal immigrants,
162
;

and industry uniformity,
305
n;

as international,
230–31
;

and intimidation of cattle ranchers,
143
;

and Lamb Weston,
130
,
158
;

and meatpacking industry consolidation,
8
;

Monfort takeover by,
158–59
;

and nation’s largest meatpacking plant,
149–50
;

poultry division of,
140
;

and price fixing,
159
;

profit margins,
174
;

tax breaks from Nebraska,
163–64
;

and workers’ compensation,
184

ConAgra Who?
,
159

Connelly, John,
227

Conservation.
See
Environmentalism

Consortium Members, Inc.,
100

Consumers Union,
46
,
56

Conway family,
257–58

Conway’s Red Top Restaurant,
257–59

Coolidge, Calvin,
38

Copenhagen,
244

Corn,
143

Cornell University,
126

Corporate logos,
20

Country Pride,
159

Cox News Service,
212

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store,
162

Cramer, Keith G.,
22

Crawford, Cindy,
237

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,
202

Crime: in fast food industry,
83–87
,
292
n,
293
n;

and meatpacking industry,
154–55
,
164–66
,
179–81
,
206
,
305
n;

and migrant workforce,
162
;

organized crime in meatpacking industry,
154–55
,
305
n;

sexual harassment,
176
.
See also
Injuries

CrissCut Fries,
130

Cross, Russell,
207

Cryptosporidium parvum
,
196

Cudahy,
137

Cumulative trauma injuries,
163
,
185
,
310
n

Cuomo, Mario,
105

Cyclospora cayetanensis
,
196

Cywinski, John,
48

Dachau concentration camp,
39
,
233–34

Dairy Queen,
162

Dare to Discipline
,
63

Davidson, Osha Gray,
147

Dawn of Better Living
,
38

DCS Sanitation Management, Inc,
177
,
178

DD Marketing,
51–52
,
56

Dear, Joseph,
85

Deaths: and food poisoning,
197
;

and obesity,
241–42
;

and OSHA penalties,
311
n;

of workers,
178
,
179
,
311
n

DeBolt, Don,
101

Decision Earth
,
55

DeGette, Cara,
57

DeLuca, Frederick,
100

Democratic Party,
64

Denmark,
244

Denny’s,
48

Denver Post
,
56–57

DeRose, Dan,
51–53

Dickey, Jay,
85

Disassembly lines,
153–54
,
169–71
,
173–75
.
See also
Assembly lines

Disfiguring injuries,
185

Disney, Walt: as anti-socialist,
36–37
,
38
;

and brand loyalty,
43
;

development of Disneyland,
18–19
;

and fast food industry,
6
;

as FBI informant,
37
;

former Nazis as employees of,
38–39
;

and House Un-American Activities Committee,
36–37
;

and Kroc,
33–37
,
49
;

and licensing agreements,
40
;

and “synergy,”
40
.
See also
Disneyland
;
Walt Disney Company

Disney Channel,
46

Disneyland,
6
,
18–19
,
33
,
39
.
See also
Walt Disney Company

Disneyland
(TV series),
40

Disneyland University,
33

Disney World,
40

Dobbins, Kenny,
187

Dobson, James,
63

Doerfler, Ernst,
229

Doherty, James C.,
87–88

Dole, Elizabeth,
239

Domino’s,
2
,
23
,
56
,
69

Donley, Nancy,
200

Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp,
39
,
282
n

Dresden,
227
,
229

Drive-in banks,
17

Drive-in churches,
19

Drive-in restaurants,
17

Dropouts,
79–80

Dr Pepper,
53
,
54

Drug abuse,
174
,
310
n

Dunkin’ Donuts,
22
,
92
,
95

Dunlap, Ray,
114

Dupree, Clarence,
182

E. coli (Escherichia coli)
0157:H7: and antibiotics,
200
;

cattle infection statistics,
203
;

and children,
198–99
;

and contagion,
201–4
;

definition of,
193
,
199
;

and grass-fed cattle,
257
;

history of,
196
;

and Jack in the Box,
198–99
,
207
,
214
,
221
,
263
;

and McDonald’s,
199
;

and meat recalls,
211–14
,
220
;

and meatpacking industry,
9
,
194–96
,
202–4
,
263
;

and National School Lunch Program,
219
;

and Shiga toxins,
199–200
,
221–22
;

and SIS-C sys-tem,
207
;

strength of,
200–201
;

testing for,
209–10
,
215
,
263
;

and USDA,
203–4
,
207
,
263
;

and Wendy’s,
212

East Germany,
227
,
228
,
229
,
249–52
.
See also
Germany

Eat Your Heart Out
(Hightower),
5

Eggs,
264

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
22

Elders Company,
230

Electro-Hop,
24

Employment.
See
Labor practices
;

Workforce

Encroachment,
99–101

England.
See
United Kingdom

Engler, Paul,
138

Environmentalism,
133–35
,
146
,
261–62
,
268

Erikson, Erik,
44

Escherichia coli
0157:H7.
See
E. coli (Escherichia coli)
0157:H7

European Court of Human Rights,
249

European Union (EU),
142
,
243
,
264

“Everything of Zig’s” (Ziglar),
105

Excel,
137
,
143
,
158
,
174
,
178

Exxon,
55
,
56

Exxon Education Foundation,
55

Fair Labor Standards Act,
73
,
82

Falwell, Jerry,
63

Farm industry,
8–9
,
118

Fast food industry:

and American diet,
3–4
;

and Americanization of the world,
239–40
,
243–44
;

and assembly lines,
20
,
69
;

and awards for employees,
88
;

boycotts of,
269–70
;

and Chain Operators Exchange,
236–39
;

clustering of,
60
;

competition in,
24
,
71
,
78
,
229
,
258
;

and conformity,
5–6
;

consumer spending on,
275
n;

and corporate-sponsored teaching materials,
55–56
;

and crime,
83–87
,
292
n,
293
n;

and deliberate food contamination,
222
;

and drive-in restaurants,
17
;

and E. coli,
198–99
,
207
,
214
,
221
,
263
;

and emotional connections,
49–51
;

employee turnover in,
72–73
,
83
,
276
n;

exportation of,
9–10
;

and federal subsidies,
72
;

and fixed costs,
78
;

and flavor additives,
120–29
;

and foodtechnology,
6–7
;

founders of,
5–6
,
13–28
;

and french fries,
115–17
;

government regulation of,
264
;

and government-backed loans,
101–2
;

growth of,
3
,
8
;

and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP),
208
,
215
;

and homogenizing of America,
5
;

and impulsive buying,
66
;

injury rates in,
83
;

as international,
88
,
228–34
,
239–40
,
243–49
,
267
;

and interstate high-way system,
8
,
22
;

investment in,
24–25
;

largest hamburger chains,
27
;

and lawsuits,
75
,
245–49
,
266–67
;

lobbying efforts of,
8
,
37
,
88
,
267
;

management salaries in,
73
,
74
;

McDonald’s as standard for,
22
,
65
,
97
;

and “McWorld,”
229
;

and obesity,
9
,
40–43
,
261
,
324
n;

and Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA),
84–85
;

and oil embargo,
24
;

and popular culture,
9
;

and poultry industry,
139–42
;

profit margins in,
54
,
286
n;

public school marketing programs of,
51–57
;

real costs in,
261–62
;

and restaurant technology,
24
,
66–67
,
71–72
;

rural life affected by,
8
;

and saturated fats,
298
n;

and school dropouts,
79–80
;

site selection for,
66
;

and Small Business Administration (SBA),
102
;

social status of employment in,
78–79
;

tax breaks for,
72
;

teenagers in,
67–71
,
78–87
;

and throughput,
67–71
;

and toys,
4
,
47–48
;

training in,
69–71
,
262
;

and unions,
71
,
75–77
,
88
,
233
,
262
;

wages in,
8
,
37
,
71
,
73–74
,
85
,
277
n,
328
n;

and worker safety,
84–85
.
See also
Advertising
;
Cattle industry
;
Labor Practices
;
Meatpacking industry
;
Workforce
;
and specific companies