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Eric Schlosser Guest
Eric Schlosser

investigative reporter and author

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.

FROM Eric Schlosser

The US is preparing for nuclear war
To the Point

The US is preparing for nuclear war As a candidate, President Trump asked, "If we don't use nuclear weapons, why do we have them?" "Modernization" began with Barack Obama. Now, it's more intense than at any time since the Cold War, which ended when Ronald Reagan and Michael Gorbachev agreed to downsize their arsenals.

35 min, 6 sec Oct 31, 2017

Is it safe to transport nuclear warheads on long haul trucks?
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Is it safe to transport nuclear warheads on long haul trucks? 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. There are concerns about safety and security.

12 min, 32 sec Mar 15, 2017

Can Big Business Improve the Plight of America's Farm Workers?
To the Point

Can Big Business Improve the Plight of America's Farm Workers? Migrant workers labor under conditions that some describe as a kind of indentured servitude and, until not that long ago, the very worst of the worst offenders were the tomato farms of Immokolee, Florida.

34 min, 52 sec Apr 29, 2014

The Threat to America — from Our Own Nuclear Weapons
Which Way, L.A.?

The Threat to America — from Our Own Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War, atomic bombs fell out of the sky over North Carolina. A missile tipped with a hydrogen bomb blew up in Arkansas. Most Americans never knew about 700 "significant" incidents that could have produced historic catastrophes — here in the US.

32 min, 12 sec Nov 11, 2013

The Threat to America — from Our Own Nuclear Weapons
To the Point

The Threat to America — from Our Own Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War, atomic bombs fell out of the sky over North Carolina. A missile tipped with a hydrogen bomb blew up in Arkansas. Most Americans never knew about 700 "significant" incidents that could have produced historic catastrophes — here in the US.

32 min, 12 sec Nov 11, 2013

US Nuclear Weapons, Past and Future
To the Point

US Nuclear Weapons, Past and Future During the Cold War, atomic bombs fell out of the sky over North Carolina. A missile tipped with a hydrogen bomb blew up in Arkansas. Most Americans never knew about 700 "significant" incidents that could have produced historic catastrophes — here in the US.

32 min, 20 sec Oct 07, 2013

Huge Beef Recall from Chino Slaughterhouse
Which Way, L.A.?

Huge Beef Recall from Chino Slaughterhouse Daniel Ugarte Navarro has been arrested at home in Pomona and charged with abusing cows at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company in Chino. That’s the packing plant that recalled 143 million pounds of beef over the weekend—everything it produced in the past two years.

Feb 18, 2008

Fast Food Nation; Film's Bizarre Bazaar
The Business

Fast Food Nation; Film's Bizarre Bazaar Will the film version of muckraking bestseller Fast Food Nation finally ruin America's appetite for the Value Meal once and for all? Plus, the bazaar -- that's b-i-z-a-r-r-e -- that is the American Film Market .

Nov 13, 2006

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