Fast Food Nation :::
Labor Rights.Org (Working for Justice in the Global Economy)
Facts About Walmart
Census Infomation
Opposing Viewpoints
Search "fast food" and also try the following terms:
"minimum wage" and "fast food"
advertising and "fast food"
unions and "fast food"
CQ
Researcher
Search for "fast food."
Also try the magazine and newspaper databases from the Learning Resources home page.
Discount Superstores
Wal-Mart Watch
Includes public opinion survey.
Is Wal-Mart Good for America? Frontline Special
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/
Wal-Mart-- Background, Timeline and Impact of the Company supplied by Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart
Writing About Wal-Mart: Choosing Your Words Carefully
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=1706657&page=1
Don't Blame Wal-Mart for the Wal-Mart Economy
http://www.slate.com/id/2089532/
Fast Food Restaurants
Anti-McDonald’s Site (fighting their glossy image)
http://www.mcspotlight.org/
McDonalds Table of Nutrition Analysis
http://www.mcspotlight.org/company/publications/nutrition_table2.html
Food Safety/Health
USDA Gateway to Government Information on Food Safety
http://www.foodsafety.gov/
FDA Food and Drug Administration Official Site
http://www.fda.gov/
Nutrition Gov
http://www.nutrition.gov Click to skip
movie—great sites.
US Department of Agriculture—Center for Nutrition and Promotion
http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/
Food guidelines from the government and how they are promoting them.
Labor
Report on the Youth Labor Force
http://www.bls.gov/opub/rylf/rylfhome.htm
Statistics on age, educational attainment of teenage workers
ACLU Immigrant Rights
http://www.aclu.org/ImmigrantsRights/ImmigrantsRightsMain.cfm
All state minimum wage laws and recent legislation
Advertising
Advertising for the Big Box Invasion
From the small store point of view.
Google searches: Food politics, Fast food and legislation, Immigrant workers and food industry, Teenagers and food industry, Teenagers and jobs after school, Minimum wage and fast food
Last updated: April 9, 2007
