Colbert Hammers 'Food Nazi' Schlosser

When I read Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation some years ago, I was surprised -- given all the nightmarish imagery the book presented -- at what disturbed me the most. Despite all the horrific tales of animal waste and workers' body parts ending up in the food chain, I was particularly horrified to learn that fast-food hamburgers contained the meat of hundreds, if not thousands, of different cows. It had never occurred to me that this might be the case. But it is, thanks to our system of industrial food production, which treats food like any other manufactured commodity.

Stephen Colbert told Schlosser on The Colbert Report last night that blending all that meat together "sounds like a blended scotch," so what's the problem?

Schlosser explained what the problem was, as well as several other problems with modern-day food production.