Regardless of your beliefs, this movie adaptation is awful.

I read a book with this title years ago but the similarities end there. Shame on Eric Schlosser for selling his idea and participating in this 'adaptation.' I can only assume he took the money and put it into 'executive producing' There Will Be Blood. Eric, stick to your book! Your rich family will take care of you. You don't need Hollywood money.

Regardless of one's eating habits or beliefs, this film fails to deliver on any of the ideas or topics that made the book interesting. It deludes all of it into a weak mosaic/pastiche of modern Americana that goes nowhere and ends up confusing the issues. Bruce Willis' character Harry ends up giving the most believable ideas in the film - and that's the opposite of the goal!

I'm curious when they started editing it (as it was released in Nov of 2006) as I can only assume the surprise Oscar success of Crash in March of 2006 influenced their decisions of putting together such poorly developed scenes and characters and pretending it was all connected. Traffic (2000) and Syriana (2005), both written by Stephen Gaghan, also are clear influences. (I don't necessarily think any of these movies are much better, they just did it earlier)

The obvious problem with Fast Food Nation is that it doesn't attempt to finish the threads that it starts. The only character that develops at all is Amber - and she just quits her fast food job without being able to enunciate why.

The funniest part on the dvd is when Schlosser and Linklater talk about setting the book aside and just writing a story out of the characters. The book clearly isn't about characters and there are none to take from it. Linklater has an extremely limited skill set, and developing characters just isn't one of his talents.
Awful choices, guys.
You somehow made more opponents to any healthy and/or conscientious ideas of nourishing ourselves.