The flip side – A fictionalized film goes behind the burgers to examinethe issue of illegal immigration in the fast-food industry – “Fast Food Nation”
Tagged: border, Film““Fast Food Nation” follows a trio of fictional Mexicans who are smuggled across the U.S. border, then farmed out to a meatpacking plant in Colorado. The troubles they face there – low wages, a frantic, perilous pace of work – are presented as the very factors that help make such cheap, quick and ubiquitous food possible.
“You would never connect illegals with a hamburger,” says Yareli Arizmendi, who plays a plant worker in the Richard Linklater film. Arizmendi notes that a poster for the movie features the image of a burger festooned with the U.S. flag: “I mean, how American can you get?””
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November 17th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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