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Show all (8)Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear), a marketing executive for a national burger chain must leave blissful ignorance behind when his boss gives him an unsavory assignment: Investigate scientific findings that cow manure is contaminating the meat used in the company's top-selling hamburger. Don's search takes him from his comfortable office to a vast feedlot, to the inner rooms of a slaughterhouse manned by illegal immigrants, who must do all the dirty work.
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The question is not "Where's the beef?" In director Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation," the questions are more about who cut up the cow that turned into the patty; where the cutters and gutters come from; who flips the patties on grills in towns like Cody, Colo., or cities like Chicago; and why we eat like this. (Full review)