At the hospital, Sylvia is told that Raul was on amphetamines at work. Raul, attempting to save him, falls and is injured. In a work accident, a friend of Raul's falls in a machine, and his leg is mangled. Coco develops a drug habit, and begins an affair with her exploitative superior, Mike. Sylvia, however, cannot take the environment, and instead finds a job as a hotel maid. They all go to Uni-Globe in hopes of finding a job – Raul becomes a cleaner, while Coco works on a meat processing conveyor belt. Raul, his love interest Sylvia, and Sylvia's sister Coco are illegal immigrants from Mexico, trying to make it in Colorado. Upon hearing the police, they retreat and contemplate why the cattle decided to stay in confinement. They proceed to sneak up to a holding pen at the plant, but after breaking down the fence, they are shocked that the cattle make no attempt to leave. Amber eventually meets a group of young activists, Andrew, Alice, and Paco, who plan to liberate cattle from Uni-Globe as their first act of rebellion. While her life seems to be set, she continually faces the contrast between her current career and her own ambition, emphasized by her two lazy co-workers, Brian and Andrew, who, having heard of armed robberies at fast food restaurants in the area, start planning their own.Īmber and Cindy are visited by Cindy's brother Pete, who encourages Amber to leave town and start a real career. Don later meets with Harry Rydell, executive VP of Mickey's, who admits being aware of the issue, but is not concerned.Īmber is a young, upbeat employee of Mickey's, studying for college and living with her mother Cindy. Rudy and his Chicana housekeeper both assure him that because of the plant's production level, several safety regulations are ignored or worked against workers have no time to make sure that the manure coming from the intestines stays away from the meat.

Suspicious of the façade he's been shown, Don meets rancher Rudy Martin, who used to supply cattle to the Uni-Globe plant. Don's tour shows him only the pristine work areas and most efficient procedures, assuring him that everything the company produces is immaculate. When he learns that independent research has discovered a considerable presence of fecal matter in the meat, he travels to the fictitious town of Cody, Colorado to determine if the local Uni-Globe meatpacking processing plant, Mickey's main meat supplier, is guilty of sloppy production. The film, an international co-production of the United States and the United Kingdom, is loosely based on Schlosser's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book Fast Food Nation.ĭon Anderson is the Mickey's hamburger chain marketing director who helped develop the 'Big One', its most popular menu item. Fast Food Nation is a 2006 black satire film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Linklater and Eric Schlosser.

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