Fast Food Nation Page #7

That's what they need.

You wanna be safe?

Huh? Perfectly safe?

Well, forget about it.

That's not gonna happen. Okay?

Everybody just needs

to get that through their head.

Just cook the meat,

and you'll be fine.

I can't believe I'm hearing this.

You've known all about this?

I'm shocked.

Donny boy, you just gotta try and step back

and look at the big picture.

in automobile accidents every year.

Does that mean Detroit

should stop making cars?

Does it?

Of course not.

You ever been down to Mexico?

- What's that have to do with anything?

- It's beautiful down there.

Really beautiful.

Great beaches. Gorgeous.

But poor. Poor.

Poorest f***in' place

I ever been, I think.

Guy down there makes three,

maybe four dollars a day.

A day, Don.

Now, that same guy,

he comes up here...

he gets a job workin' for U.M.P.-

makin' $10 an hour.

That's more money in one day

than he makes back home in a whole month.

So, frankly, I don't see the problem.

Nobody's makin' these people

come up here. Right?

Nobody's tellin' them

to come work for U.M.P.

- Okay, okay. But that's not the point.

- And you know what?

I admire these people. Okay?

I really do.

They're hard workers.

They're workin' hard, and they're trying

to improve their lives. Okay?

Now, isn't that

what our ancestors did?

Isn't that what made this country

the great country that it is today? Huh?

And you wanna try and stop 'em?

You wanna tell 'em

that you know what's best for 'em?

Well, most people don't like

to be told what's best for 'em.

Well, what's goin' on

at U.M.P. is unacceptable.

And I'm gonna have

to tell Jack about all this.

Oh. Gonna tell Jack, huh?

I've been workin' for this company

almost 30 years.

Hell, I grew up right down the street

from the Nathans...

when we were all back in Muncie.

So, here's my little piece

of friendly advice to you, Donny boy.

I'd be careful

how close I got to Jack.

See, your boy Jack

is about this close...

to gettin' his tit

caught in the ringer.

He's under investigation, okay?

Cookin' the books,

paddin' his expense account.

Not to mention

bonin' his own secretary, okay?

- And that is not the kind of

company that we want to run.

- Louise?

That's right.

Your buddy Jack's got two,

maybe three months before he's out the door.

- Could be sooner.

- He's sleeping with Louise?

And you know what, Don?

You should be thankin' me

instead of doin' all this complainin'.

I negotiated a hell

of a good price with U.M.P.

Okay? I negotiated a great price

for your f***in' meat.

Hell, if it weren't for me,

there wouldn't be no Big One, Don.

I'd like to see you find a supplier...

that will sell you Grade "A" chuck

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