Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is a book about the increasing growth of the fast food industry in the United States throughout history. This book captures many different aspects about how the growth of this industry is putting a damper on American society. In particular, Schlosser uses Chapter 6 to explore how many ranchers are losing their land due to monopolizing power of the meatpacking industry. In this chapter, Schlosser uses two significant sources to prove how ranchers are losing their land, contributing to the overall argument of Chapter 6, where he successfully vilifies the meatpacking and fast food industries for forcing ranchers to lose their livelihood and loved ones.
             Schlosser starts Chapter 6 with a story about a man named Hank who is kind enough to show Schlosser around his Colorado Springs ranch. This story ends with Hank showing a section of his ranch where a stock car racing track has been built, an area that was once filled with beautiful landscape, but now the product of a developing America. (Schlosser 135) This story is used to be a gateway to the hard facts that Schlosser brings about in the sections to come.
             Schlosser then uses his research in "The Threat of Wealthy Neighbors" section of Chapter 6 to show how Colorado's ordinary ranchers have lost over a million acres of land, this problem stemming from the fast food industry. (Schlosser 144) He uses, "A Report on the Conversion of Agricultural Land in Colorado" from the Colorado Department of Agriculture and the Governor's Task Force on Agricultural Lands and also, "Loss of Agricultural Land Figures for Colorado" a memorandum by David Carlson, books rich with information about the difficulties that ranchers are having. (Schlosser 321) From these resources, Schlosser says the reasons why the rancher's problems are stemming from the fast food industry are that the fast food industry is continuously expa
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