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BookBrowse Reviews Chew on This: A stinging exposé on the fast food industry, written for teens, by the author of Fast Food Nation

Chew on This
Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
by Eric Schlosser, Charles W. Wilson
Paperback, Apr 2007,
320 pages.
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From the book jacket: 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?...
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Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His 2001 book, Fast Food Nation, is assigned reading at universities across the country; he is also the author of Reefer Madness (2003). He is currently working on a book about the prison system.

"It's easy to take the fast-food...

This review was originally published in June 2006, and has been updated for the April 2007 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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