Political Media Review

This edited collection draws together works from scholars involved in ‘green criminology’. Green criminology studies how governments, corporations, military complexes and human consumption harm the environment and non-human animals. Damage to air and water quality, animal testing, uranium proliferation and slaughterhouses are examples of the kinds of issues green criminologists examine.

Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation hit The New York Times’ “Bestsellers” list, and was praised by powerful publications such as The New Yorker, Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post. Fast Food Nation presents the history and horrors of this industry’s journey from its sparse beginnings to become a symbol of American success, including purposefully advertising to children, union busting, and bribing government agencies.