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Eric Schlosser speaks at Rice

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, spoke at Rice last night as part of their President’s Lecture Series.  I don’t go to these types of things as often as I should, but last night was a reminder about why I should.  I really regretted not having my little notebook with me to make a couple of notes - there were several points that he raised in both his prepared remarks and during the question and answer session that I wanted to look into afterwards.  I wish I could find the text of his prepared remarks somewhere, or better yet a transcript of last night including the Q&A session.  

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