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  1. Fast Food Trend (2003)

    Subject
    Catering; Health Education
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 30 minutes), $69.96

    Jami Floyd investigates the burgeoning health trend cropping up in fast-food restaurants. Chains like McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King and KFC are retooling their menus with lower-fat, lower-calorie...

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  2. Super Size Me (2005)

    Subject
    Catering; Health Education; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

    An irreverent look at why so many Americans are obese and what happens if you eat nothing but fast food for a month. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does just this whilst providing a look at the food culture in...

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  3. Fast Food Nation (2006)

    Director
    Richard Linklater
    Subject
    Biology; Health Education; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £19.99

    Eric Schlosser’s book was a huge worldwide success, exposing the underbelly of the fast food industry and the consequences on our health. Fast Food Nation is Richard Linklater’s dramatisation of such...

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  4. Restaurants from Hell 2002 (2002)

    Subject
    FE; Health & safety
    Distribution
    VHS (60 minutes), subscription only

    One-off programme looking at some disastrous dining debacles. Including the fast food staff who confess to spitting in food served to the public, the popular family restaurant contaminated with mouse and rat...

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  5. Fast Food Services (1979 Video)

    Director
    Martin White
    Producer
    Martin White
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min.

    An illustration of a fictional warehouse system: the paperwork and the cash flow problems form the basis of a computing exercise for students on short courses.

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  6. Meatrix, The (3 Parts) (2003)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies

    An animated takeoff of THE MATRIX that describes the evils of factory farming. It was made by the green messaging firm Free Range Studios in 2003 as a commissioned project for GRACE, the GrassRoots Action...

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  7. Food, Inc. (2009)

    Director
    Robert Kenner
    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology; Earth Science; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £6.99

    In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our...

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  8. Swimming in Fish: An Experimental Approach (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at how fish use different muscles for slow or fast swimming with film from the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen, where fish have been trained to ‘race’ for a food reward. There are also sequences...

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  9. Empowerment (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2001 sale: £75.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines how the concept of empowerment is interpreted in practice in five different organisations: McDonalds (fast food chain), Alliance Account (telephone banking), Rover (Land Rover car production),...

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  10. America in the Fifties: The Road to the Sixties (2001 Video)

    Producer
    Nancy Button
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    MacDonalds invents fast food and Detroit designer Harley Earl comes up with exuberant cars more like ‘jukeboxes on wheels’; the Russians shock the Americans by beating them into space with Sputnik. The...

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