A few years back, I walked into a Hardee’s bathroom and found one of the kids who worked the counter sitting on a sink eating a hamburger. When I asked him why he was eating in the bathroom he told me that employees weren’t allowed to “eat on the floor.” The humanity. It’s this kind of depressing fast food pathos that Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation” discusses in this half-hour interview. He makes the argument that not only is fast food bad because the food itself is bad for you, but also because of, among other things, the way it’s marketed to kids and the conditions that the meat packers themselves work under. But still, the food is bad for you… whatever that food may be. There’s one moment where Schlosser is invited to read off some of the “hidden” ingredients contained in the “natural flavor” of a Burger King milk shake. It’s creepy stuff. Listening to this interview on the heels of McDonald’s decision to discontinue its supersize menu (a Chevy trunk of fries served with a wading pool of Coca Cola) makes you feel like there is hope for some kind of change. This could go in any kind of newsmagazine show… on a show about health, the economy, youth culture, or the speed of urban life.