In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser describes the word “trustbusters”(Pg 137). It is a method that was used to investigate companies under suspicion of creating a monopoly, which allowed them the potential of gaining great, independent, economic control over a market. In 1980 the Sherman Antitrust Act was signed into law. It was created to deal with issues in the meatpacking industry in where companies were able to manipulate the price in the industry. Prior to the Antitrust Act companies controlled the prices they paid from purchasing the livestock from ranchers. The control that they had over the industry also allowed for them to control the prices they set on their products, which then left the consumer paying excessive amounts. Because of the Sherman Antitrust Act prices are now regulated and the companies cannot exaggeratedly overprice their products.  

Eating Animals

The main ideas that come from "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safron Foer, is to make the readers aware of the dangers that accompany the process and production of food from the meat industry. It provides history of extended research with examples of how these foods become contaminated and dangerous for the consumer. With his examined facts he provides the reader an opportunity to analyze and question the safety of the food that they eat. The book also gives the reader the ability to determine whether the disregard of food safety by the USDA is acceptable and worth the risk of their own health. In an example of disregarded food safety, Foer states  "Once a dangerous contaminant, feces are now classified as a "cosmetic blemish" (Foer, 134). This example of hidden health risk is one that the consumer should be made aware of, and left up to them to make the decision on whether they would prefer to ingest contaminated food. Foer also provides facts provided from Scott Bronstein, a journalist who conducted USDA inspectors, and quotes him as "Every week", he reports, "millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by bacteria, or marred by ling and heart infections, cancerous tumors. or skin conditions are shipped for sale to the consumers" (Foer, 134). These are just a couple of the facts discussed in the book, which provide an alarming awareness of how food inspections are either very leanient, or are intentionally careless in the responsibility of the safety of consumer's health.