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Would you feel better if the article was posted on the Atlantic Monthly site instead? Or printed in a best-selling book?

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/01/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation

Some years ago, I saw a tv documental that was almost identical to this text: McDonalds' fries, natural vs. artificial aromas, the New Jersey hub of fragance companies... I thought that this was a transcript of the show, except the tv version included interviews. Anyway, it doesn't seem conspiratory at all.

Because even nutjobs are right some of the time.

Yes, but it's pretty tough to figure out which times.

Though I suppose the fact that this article is actually just copied (plagiarized?) from The Atlantic may lend it some credibility...

It was credited.

This actually is an excerpt from a very good book called Fast Food Nation.