Page 24 RAIN July 1979 JUNKFOOD "Fast Foods Will Make You Sickly Quickly," April 1977 Caveat Emptor, $1 from: Caveat Emptor 620 Freeman St. Orange, NJ 07050 . "The moisture content alone m fast food restaurant hotdogs, hamburgers, fishburgers, french fries and fried chicken ranges from 44 to 62 percent, which almost qualifies them as beverages." And much more useful information on fast food's contribution to dental problems, mouth and gum dis: eases, high cholesterol levels, heart disease, diabetes, hypoglycemia, obesit~, emotional problems and o_ther maladi~s that plague modern America. F?r use in your local Fallen Arches campaign to ban franchise foods. -TB "Hamburger's Last Stand," Peter Barry Chowka, East West Journal, June 1979, $1.50 from: EWJ 233 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02146 Only last November we were bemoaning and hoping (Nov. 1978 Rain, p. 3) that someone would pull together a good examination of the fast food businesslaying out nutritional and merc?a~dising deception, harmful economic impacts, etc. Well, Peter Barry Chowka has come through in fine fashion! His "Hamburger's Last Stand," focusing, of course, on McDonald's, should be xeroxed and given to every city council member anri newspaper editor in a campaign to ban fast food~franchises. McDonald's profits, employee harassment, financial misrepresentation, health hazards, nutritional questons, community impacts and resistance, and predictions from the finance world of big troubles ahead for the Big Mac. Get it, RAIN Magazine 2270 NW Irving Portland, OR 97210 fill in the missing pieces from the Nov. '78 Rain, and go to it. Peter, the next assignment we'll wish upon you is _in consumer finance. Call us for detailsand thanks! -TB II OUTLOOKS New Age Blues: On the Politics of Consciousness, Michael Rossman, 1979, $6.95 from: E.P. Dutton 201 Park Ave. New York, NY 10003 Here at last is a book of essays which begins to bridge the gaps between the political (how do we end the war, corporate oppression, etc.?) and the personal (how can I be healthy, happy and wise?). It even goes one step further into some eye-opening and long-needed discussions on serious psychic research. In some ways it is a depressing book. He makes a good case for the proclivity of our generation to search for gurus, whether Baba Ram Dass or Werner Erhardt, as a continuation of authoritarian patterns. He worries about the Defense Department using psychic phenomena (mind suggestion or even hordes of warlocks) for evil purposes-science fiction come true. I wish he'd take a closer look at some of the more positive aspects of integrated visions of the "New Age" which he touches upon in discus- ] s on gr p healing energy or the possibilities of joint learning with peers rather than top down teaching. Still, it's important for optimists like me to consider the seamier aspects of our hopes. There's much here and much to be built upon and to think about. - LdeM The New Tyranny: How Nuclear Power Enslaves Us, by Robert Jungk, translated by Christopher Trump, 1979, 204 pp., $10 from: Grosset and Dunlap Inc. 51 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10010 A "super race" of humans who can tolerate doses of radiation; caloric sensors which can detect any warm-blooded body moving by it; devices that read voices like fingerprints; the use of mind altering drugs to prevent workers from sabotaging a power plant. The aforementioned techniques read like a scenario from a science fiction movie, but the unfortunate truth is that these methods, and others, exist today and soon may be employed in ·'protecting" nuclear power plants. Robert Jungk, noted historian and teacher from Germany, examines how the continued proliferation of nuclear power worldwide will decrease civil liberties and set up an authoritarian state much like the one envisioned in Orwell's 1984. Although Jungk stresses that this society does not yet exist, he does document how the roots of such a system are forming today. A worldwide movement to put an end to this trend is advocated. Highly recommended. - YL
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