Fast Food Nation Page #6

- Yeah, hey, look, just ask.

- Mm-hmm.

- Don't worry about it.

- All right. Got it.

- Casual. Nothin'-

- Hi!

- Hey.

- Were you here the other night?

- Yeah.

- Who was that guy that was with you?

- Uh, my uncle?

Oh, my God.

We were trying

to figure that one out.

He's hot, okay?

No, he's my uncle.

I'm Andrew. This is Alice.

- I'm Amber.

- Kim.

- Kim? Nice to meet you.

- Hey.

We're all heading over to the lookout

for a party, if you guys wanna come.

- The lookout?

- Mm-hmm.

That road behind campus-Take that up

Mount Cody a mile, and it's right there.

- Oh, right. Yeah.

- Should be fun.

- Maybe we'll see you then.

- Make it out there.

- Okay, see you there.

- All right.

Hey!

'Cause there is no way you

can make sense of it all on your own.

The lies are too big.

They're too ingenious.

They're too interconnected

with one another.

And they know, if the lies are repeated

over and over and over again...

people are finally gonna

have to believe it, and we do.

Yeah. Like, have you guys read that book

Crimes Against Nature?

- Title says it all.

- Exactly.

- Read that book.

- It's talking about how right now...

they've got the logging companies

and the timber companies...

chopping down all the trees

in the national forest...

but they're saying

it's the "healthy forest" program.

Yep, and they got the coal companies

running our clean-air plan.

How do they announce that stuff in public

without cracking up?

I gotta hand it to them though-

genius f***ing marketers.

And they're extremely well organized,

so we need to be too.

- Amber!

- Yeah, and these guys see themselves...

- as big-time, righteous Christians.

- Come here.

What would Jesus do?

- Hey, what's going on?

- I met these really cute guys.

They want to meet you.

Well- I'm hanging out

with these guys.

- They're so boring.

- I don't wanna leave just yet.

- Why?

- I don't know-

Don't worry about it.

I'll catch up with you later.

- Hey, Brian.

- Hey. What are you doing here?

- Tony?

- Hey, Amber.

- Uh, Tony-

- Yeah.

- I don't think I can work here anymore.

- Everything okay?

You okay?

I'm fine.

I mean, what do you want to do?

You wanna cut back on the hours?

Maybe try another shift?

No.

Something happen?

Anybody giving you a hard time?

- No.

- What's up?

Talk to me.

I just- I can't work here anymore.

- It feels wrong.

- How is it wrong?

- The job sucks, but that doesn't mean it's wrong.

- Brian.

Listen, Amber,

you're one of my best associates, okay?

We're starting to talk about you-

management material.

Okay? You're about

to turn 18 pretty soon.

We're expanding. We got a lot

of opportunities here. Think about this.

I just want to do something else.

Okay. There something wrong

with this place?

It kinda doesn't feel real.

I mean- It's not your fault.

It's just-This place is like

a thousand other places.

- They're all- It's identical.

- All right.

Okay, you want reality,

you got it. Good-bye.

Tony, I'm sorry.

This has nothing to do with you.

I'm really disappointed, Amber.

- Really disappointed.

- Me too.

I'm... sorry.

You can pick up your check next Thursday.

Do you want a Coffee Freezer

for the road?

Okay.

Francisco!

Rpido!

Raul!

Hombre, qu paso?

Okay.

Sylvia!

Ah, Sylvia.

I'm Tom Watson, Human Resources.

- Como est?

- How is he?

Oh, well, he's got a few cracked ribs,

a pretty bad concussion...

and he has a disk

in his lower back that's hurt.

But that could have been a problem

before the accident.

She says,

"If he's going to be all right?"

He's gonna be real sore,

but he's gonna be okay.

Look, I want you to tell her I have

some unpleasant news that we need to discuss.

Raul tested positive

for methamphetamine.

It's an illegal drug.

It appears he was using drugs on the job.

And this could have caused the accident.

She says she doesn't believe you.

Well, tell her this.

Tell her that U.M.P. is committed

to a drug-free workplace.

And, if you break the rules,

it endangers others. Tell her that.

She says Raul has never used any drugs.

Well, look, I can show her

the result of the blood test.

She doesn't believe us.

I'm sorry about your husband.

Problem is, at this very moment,

there's about a hundred thousand cattle...

in the U.M.P. feedlot

that's right outside of Cody.

It's one of the biggest feedlots in the world.

Each one of those cows...

puts out 50 pounds

of piss and sh*t every day.

- Fifty pounds each.

- Lovely.

Yeah, I know.

So, that U.M.P. feedlot...

produces more waste

every single day...

than all of the people

in Denver combined.

- That's gross.

- Yeah.

And-And the waste

from U.M.P.'s feedlot, it's-it's-

It's not going to some

high-tech treatment plant, you know?

It's being pumped

into these lagoons...

which are these just great big ponds

of piss and sh*t.

And these great big sh*t ponds

are leaking sh*t into Peyton Creek...

which eventually ends up

in the river.

I mean, you should see it. U.M.P. 's cattle,

they're all just crammed together...

living in their own manure,

eating this genetically engineered crap...

that's being dumped into

these concrete troughs for them.

It's like prison camps for cows.

You wouldn't believe it.

You can smell it, like, three miles away.

So Professor Cohen is gonna help us

coordinate a letter-writing campaign...

not only

to the state water quality board...

- but to various editorial organizations-

- Are you kidding me?

Excuse me?

You guys are gonna write a letter.

That company is the meanest

f***ing company I've ever seen.

They treat their workers like sh*t.

They treat the animals like sh*t.

They're dumping tons of sh*t

and piss into our river...

- and you guys are gonna write a letter?

- Yes, Paco...

as an official warning, to be followed

by a campus-wide boycott...

of everything that comes

out of that place.

The governor got $200,000

from U.M.P. last year.

Cathy Crawford?

Head of the environmental committee

in the state senate?

She's married to a U.M.P. top exec.

And you guys are gonna

write a letter.

What a f***ing waste of time.

Listen, you have gotta start somewhere

in raising awareness-

No, this is bullshit-

this environmental policy discussion group.

Even our name sucks.

Did you just make this up so you could put it

on your grad school applications, Andrew?

Do you have a better idea, Gerald?

- Excuse me, I'm- I'm sorry, "Paco"?

- F*** you, man.

Are you just here

to be the self-righteous critic, man?

I don't know, man.

Action speaks louder.

I'm tired of nice people sitting around

talking and complaining...

while the bad guys get to do

whatever the f*** they want.

- I wanna see some action.

- We all do, dude. That's what we're doing here.

Those Greenpeace dudes,

they put their asses on the line.

That's exactly what we should do.

You said that there's, like,

a hundred thousand cows, right?

- Uh, roughly.

- Well...

what if we cut the fence...

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