Fast Food Nation: What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World (58 page)

Favorite, Philly,
145

FBI,
37
,
86
,
293
n

FDA,
128

Feamster, Dave,
92–94
,
102–4

Federal subsidies,
7–8
,
72

Federal Trade Commission (FTC),
45–46
,
99
,
137

Federation of Labour of Quebec,
77

Few Quick Facts About Venereal Disease
,
38

Filet-O-Fish,
95
,
124

Film industry,
18

Financial Post
,
100

Firestone,
16

Fish, Joe,
220

Fisher, Donald,
97

Fisher, Doris,
97

Fixed costs,
78

Flash-freezing,
111
,
113

Flavor industry,
122–28

Focus on the Family,
63
,
259

Foley, William P. II,
27
,
267

Fone-A-Chef,
24

Food Chemical News
,
124

Food Engineering
,
6
,
124

Foodmaker, Inc.,
208

Food Product Design
,
124

Food Technologist
,
6

Food Will Win the War
,
38

Foot Locker,
5

Forbes
,
155
,
306
n

Ford, Henry,
36

Ford Aerospace,
62

Foreign policy, U.S.,
229–30

Foreman, Carol Tucker,
328–29
n

Foster Farms,
208

Fox Kids Network,
48

Fragrance industry,
122

France,
244

Franchises:

and American foreign policy,
229–30
;

benefits of,
97
,
98
;

for Burger King,
98
;

for Carl’s Jr. restaurants,
25
,
98
;

costs of,
98
;

and economic trends,
9
;

and encroachment,
99–101
;

failure rate of,
98
,
295
n;

franchise agreements,
99–100
,
102–4
;

history of,
94–95
;

and homogenizing of America,
5
;

international franchises,
233
;

for Jack in the Box,
99
;

for KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken),
95
;

legal protection of franchisees,
99–100
;

for McDonald’s,
95–96
,
98
,
100
;

Small Business Administration (SBA) loans for,
102
;

for Taco Bell,
85
;

and Uniform Commercial Code,
101
;

and wages,
75
,
78

Frank, Susan,
48

Freedom Newspaper chain,
63

Freedom of Information Act,
215

French fries: additives to,
120–21
;

and China,
231
;

competitive business in,
116–17
;

consumption statistics for,
277
n;

development in U.S.,
114
;

and Kroc,
114–15
;

and processor oligopsony,
117–20
;

producers of,
158
;

production costs of,
298
n;

production process for,
111–31
;

sugar added to,
131

Fresno Bee
,
53

Frey, William H.,
64

FTC.
See
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

FUBU,
82

Fujita, Den,
231
,
323
n

FutureCall,
81

Gallegos, Sandra,
193–94

Gap Inc.,
5
,
59
,
78
,
97

GapKids,
97

Gas chromatography,
124
,
301
n

General Accounting Office,
102

General Dynamics,
39

General Electric,
39

General Motors,
16
,
94

Gepetto Group,
231

Gerba, Charles,
221

German Democratic Republic.
See
East Germany

Germany,
227
,
231–32
,
249–52
,
276
n,
322
n

GFI America, Inc.,
162
,
163

Giardia lamblia
,
203

Gingrich, Newt,
210

GIPSA (Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration),
137

Givaudan,
121

Glenn & Anderson,
156

Glickman, Dan,
213
,
214

GNC Packing,
259

Godbout, Clement,
77

Godfather’s Pizza,
92

Goebbels, Joseph,
226

Golden arches: and Christian cross,
4
,
276–77
n;

design of,
20
;

Freudian importance of,
98
.
See also
McDonald’s Corporation

Goldstein, Oscar,
41

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
27
,
228
,
234
,
236–39

Göring, Hermann,
226

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA),
137

Gramm, Phil,
210

Gramm, Wendy Lee,
210

GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe),
125

Great Britain.
See
United Kingdom

Greece,
244

Greeley, Horace,
150

Greeley, Colo.,
150–51
,
266

Green Burrito,
26
,
27

Greenberg, Jack,
229

Greenberg, Jerald,
84

Greenpeace,
245–49
.
See also
London Greenpeace

Gregory, Michael,
212

Grinding It Out
(Kroc),
36

Groppel, Jack,
107

Gumby Pizza,
98

Haarman & Reimer,
121

Haber, Heinz,
39
,
283
n

HACCP.
See
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)

Hallmark Entertainment,
48

Hamburger: consumption of,
6
,
277
n;

demographics of hamburger eaters,
315
n;

development of,
197–98
;

as national dish,
198
;

and obesity,
242–3
.
See also
Cattle industry
;
E. coli
;
Meatpacking industry
;
and specific fast food companies

Hamburger Helper,
124

Hamburger University,
31
,
230

Handicapped people,
70

Happy Joe’s Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor,
98

Happy Meals, and marketing,
47–48
,
242
,
262

Hardee’s,
27
,
241

Harding, Lee,
193–94
,
200
,
211

Harper, Charles “Mike,”
159
,
163

Harvard University Medical School,
140
,
301
n

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP),
208
,
215
,
216
,
222

Healthy Choice,
159

Health insurance,
160
,
161
,
162
,
257

Heart disease,
195
,
242

Heavenly Flavors,
121

Hebrew National,
159

Hefferman, William,
120

Hefley, Joel,
186

Heinz, Margaret,
14–15

Hell’s Angels,
21

Helms, Jesse,
210

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS),
199–200

Heritage Foundation,
102

Hernandez-Gonzalez, Salvador,
178

Heston, Charlton,
105

Hewlett Packard,
62

Hi-Fries,
130

High-Level Precision Bombing
,
38

Hightower, Jim,
5

Hill, James O.,
240

Hiring practices,
70–72

Hispanics.
See
Latinos

Hitler, Adolph,
226

Hitler Youth,
226

HIV,
196

Hobbytown USA,
5

Hogan, David Gerard,
197

Hoiles, R. C.,
63

Holland.
See
Netherlands

Hollywood Reporter
,
48

Holman, Currier J.,
153
,
154
,
155
,
164

Holmgren, Paul,
93

Home Depot,
92

Homeless shelters,
163

Hoover, Herbert,
63

Hoover Dam,
235