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The Complicated Legacy of ‘Super Size Me’

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Along with other influential contemporary cultural documents, like Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation in 2001 and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma in 2006, Super Size Me changed the way many Americans think about fast food by exposing the nefarious underworld that sustains it. Thousands, if not millions, of people felt the same way.

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Tyson Built the Plant. Its Meatpackers Built the Community.

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My parents had also moved to Sioux City to work at the plant — then owned by Iowa Beef Processors before Arkansas-based Tyson acquired it in 2001 — but they knew there wasn’t much opportunity for them there. Sinclair’s book focused on Chicago, but in the 1960s, meatpackers began moving to rural areas.