Patent applications show the gizmo to be a motorized scooter, which explains Mr. Kamen's quote about his creation. Supposedly the device can be assembled in about 10 minutes. Mr. Kamen himself lives in a hexagonally shaped mansion on a hilltop outside Manchester, N.H., and previous inventions include the first portable insulin pump and a wheelchair that can climb stairs. The details of one were exaggerated in a book proposal. Mr. Schlosser doesn't have a single core argument against fast food.
Charges range from manipulating kids in public schools to profiting off the Holocaust.
Finally, there's a call to action. He also wants a centralized food safety agency to act as a national health department. Fast food restaurants have been under attack for years in Europe, and the war is creeping over to the United States. To elitists they are signs of mass-marketing, uniformity, and American kitsch. Don't laugh too quickly at the seeming absurdity of the anti-fast food movement.