Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

By Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser

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Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 10 - 9V8.150768

Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn’t survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald’s? It’s true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast food restaurant.

Not only has fast food reached into the toy industry, it’s moving into our schools. One out of every five public schools in the United States now serves brand name fast food. But do kids know what they’re eating? Where do fast food hamburgers come from? And what makes those fries taste so good?

When Eric Schlosser’s best-selling book, Fast Food Nation, was published for adults in 2001, many called for his groundbreaking insight to be shared with young people. Now Schlosser, along with co-writer Charles Wilson, has investigated the subject further, uncovering new facts children need to know.

In Chew On This, they share with kids the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns, what a chicken ‘nugget’ really is, and how the fast food industry has been feeding off children for generations.

Featuring cover art by M. Wartella.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN-13: 8580001062112
ISBN-10: 0001062115
Published on 4/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 318

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i was a very interesting book

It was an interesting thesis on the fast food in america. It thoroughly explained where the food originated and how it was made. I thought it was both funny and revolting. The story ended with the readers gaining another perspective about their diet. What we consume is important in our daily lives.

This tells about how fast food is used way too much, way unhealthy for you, and is a horrible job. This can be because of to much brands or confusing children, to much soda or fating food, and how jobs at fast food places pay less money then usual!

It's a really great book, and I would recomend this to anybody. It is easy to understand and has a lot of pictures and charts.