Food for Thought
Fast food is in the news today everywhere you look: lawsuits by obese clientele, blaming the restaurants, restaurants attempting to provide healthier alternatives to the traditional fatty choices, news about the epidemic of obesity in children, and most recently the movie Super Size Me.
Whose fault is it? This bibliography provides articles that explore different topics from the book, from different angles. When you read these articles, we encourage you to ask questions, and try to see the topic from different points of view.
Some of these articles are only accessible on the LSU campus or to LSU students. They are grouped by how to access them, with instructions. If you have trouble accessing the full text of an article, please Ask a Librarian for help.
Articles with a red star (*) are only available 1) to active LSU students. If you are an incoming Freshman, you will not have access to them until you start classes. OR 2) on the LSU campus. If you would like to read these articles over the summer, please visit campus. Middleton Library has computers available to anyone.
Articles from the CQ Researcher. This database is a valuable resource for many of the "hot topics" that students write papers about. It is particularly good for providing a "Pro/Con" section for many issues, and extensive bibliographies. It is available on the LSU campus only.
* Clark, C. (1991, November 8). Fast-food shake-up. The CQ Researcher Online, 825-848. Retrieved May 11, 2004, from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher.
→ Read the article
* Cooper, M. (2001, March 2). Mad cow disease. The CQ Researcher Online, 11, 161-184. Retrieved May 3, 2004, from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher.
→ Read the article and ask, "Is the U.S. government doing enough to protect the public from mad cow disease?"
* Greenblatt, A. (2003, January 31). Obesity epidemic. The CQ Researcher Online, 13, 73-104. Retrieved May 11, 2004, from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher.
→ Read the article and ask, "Should restaurants be liable for customers' weight gains?"
* Hosansky, D. (2002, May 17). Farm subsidies. The CQ Researcher Online, 12, 433-456. Retrieved May 11, 2004, from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher.
→ Read the article and ask, "Should the government limit payments to individual farmers?"
* Hosansky, D. (2002, November 1). Food safety. The CQ Researcher Online, 12, 897-920. Retrieved May 3, 2004, from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher.
→ Read the article and ask, "Should irradiation be used to improve food safety?"
* Marshall, P. (2004, January 23). Advertising overload. The CQ Researcher Online, 14, 49-72. Retrieved July 28, 2004, from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2004012300. Document ID: cqresrre2004012300.
→ Read the article and ask, "Is advertising to blame for the obesity epedimic?"
Newspaper articles, available through LexisNexis Academic. LexisNexis Academic is a database containing full text articles taken from newspapers around the world. In order to find the full text for these articles, you must conduct a search in the database. The links to LexisNexis Academic will work on campus, or from off campus if you have an LSU ID. Your ID number is the 17-digit number on your LSU ID, and your PIN is changeme until you change it.
* "A Strange Ban on Testing Beef" New York Times. April 18, 2004, Sunday, Late Edition - Final. Section 4; Page 12; Column 1; Editorial Desk
→ Connect to LexisNexis Academic
* McNeil, Donald G. Jr. "Barred From Testing for Mad Cow, Niche Meatpacker Loses Clients" New York Times. April 18, 2004, Sunday, Late Edition - Final. Section 1; Page 14; Column 1; National Desk
→ Connect to LexisNexis Academic
* Jenn Abelson, "Residents Seek to Slow Fast Food Encroachment." The Boston Globe January 8, 2004, Thursday, Third Edition, GLOBE SOUTH section; Pg. 3 (569 words)
→ Connect to LexisNexis Academic and ask, Should residents be allowed to ban fast food establishments in their neighborhood?"
Magazine and journal articles from Academic Search Premier. This is a multidisciplinary database containing many full text articles from both scholarly journals and non scholarly magazines. This links will go directly to the full text of the article and are available on the LSU campus, or off campus with an LSU id number and PIN.
* "KFC blunders in 'health' ads." (editorial) Advertising Age. 74:44, 22. 11/3/2003.
→ Read the full text (1/4 a page) and ask, "Does fast food advertising unethically and/or intentionally mislead the public?"
On the Web. Articles on the web must be looked carefully at for authority, bias, timeliness, and other measures of quality. These free resources on the web have been chosen carefully by members of the LSU faculty.
Griekspoor, Phyllis Jacobs. "Local biz with a big beef," The Wichita Eagle: Knight Ridder Inc. Apr 28, 2004.
→ Read the article
Super Size Me: a Film of Epic Portions
→ Super Size Me Home Page Includes trailers and reviews.
Government Documents on the Web The U.S. Government puts many of its documents on the World Wide Web, free to access.
Agricultural Labor Affairs Web Site
→ http://www.usda.gov/agency/oce/oce/labor-affairs/affairs.htm
The Demand for Food Away from Home: Full-Service or Fast Food?
→ http://ers.usda.gov/publications/aer829/aer829.pdf
Department of Labor. Fact Sheet #2: Restaurants and Fast Food Establishments Under the Fair Labor Standards
→ http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs2.htm
Farm Employment Rules and Regulations
→ http://www.usda.gov/oce/oce/labor-affairs/emplrule.htm
Food and Drug Administration
→ http://www.fda.gov
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
→ http://www.foodsafety.gov/
Most Teen Worker Injuries In Restaurants Occur In Fast Food, NIOSH Study Finds
→ http://www.cdc.gov/NIOSH/teenfast.html
Summary of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Protection Act
→ http://www.usda.gov/agency/oce/oce/labor-affairs/mspasumm.htm
Survey links fast food, poor nutrition among U.S. children
→ http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2004/040105.htm
Workmen's Compensation and Farm Workers in the United States
→ http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/docs/d000601-d000700/d000616/d000616.html
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