Fast Food Nation: Chapters 5-8

The first thing I thought of when I was reading this was how the gas companies are supposedly gouging the consumer by having excess profit margins on gas. In the same way, how can a fast food company buy frozen french fries for 30 cents per pound, and then turn around after frying them in oil that is most likely disgusting, and then charging 6 dollars per pound? Does anyone else see any correlation between what the gas companies are doing and what McDonald's is doing? Money is the root of all that kills. It also is sad that now instead of these potato farms being owned by single families with rags to riches stories, they are owned instead by other corporations selling their product to yet another corporation. As is the same with the beef and poultry markets, wherein only a few companies are supplying all of the product for an entire country. I think that instead of reading this whole book you could have shown the documentaries The Corporation and Meet Your Meat and that would pretty much take care of it all...