Blog Two: Contradictions in the Text.

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is a book that reveals truths that the food industry never wanted us to find out about, from how food is grown to how food is prepared, and what exactly the companies think of us. In the chapter "Your Trusted Friends," Schlosser introduces the fact that immigrants are hired to help the high demand for work in the United States agricultural sector. This is contradictory to the very conservative views of the leaders of corporations, whose political party is building a wall to keep Mexicans out of the U.S. In the chapter, "Cogs in the Great Machine," business executives publicly deny knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, however they are setting up vans to drive down to Mexico and collect workers for these corporations. "If they've got a pulse, we'll take an application," jokes a meatpacking executive but there is always a truth to a lie, and this is also true for this joke (Schlosser, 157). Corporations do not care about legal status, they are just looking for the cheapest labor and will do anything to find it, especially if they find someone who can not retaliate against them, no wall is going to stop them from hiring these people.