Eric Schlosser

investigative reporter and author

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Eric Schlosser is an investigative reporter and the co-executive producer of the documentary Food Chains. He is the author of several books, including Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food and the best-selling Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. He is the co-writer of the screenplay of the film based on Fast Food Nation. Schlosser is a former correspondent for The Atlantic.

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The US is preparing for nuclear war

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When nuclear warheads need to travel, they are loaded into old 18 wheelers and driven across the country on US highways. Drivers are underpaid and overworked.

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