Chew on This: Summary and book reviews of Chew on This by Eric Schlosser, plus links to an excerpt from Chew on This and a biography of Eric Schlosser.
Chew on This Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
by Eric Schlosser, Charles W. Wilson
Hardcover: May 2006,
270 pages.
Paperback: Apr 2007,
320 pages.
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.
BOOK REVIEWS
BookBrowse Chew On This doesn't simply regurgitate the "original" (Fast Food Nation) in a simpler form; instead the information has been substantially rewritten to be of interest to a younger audience, with additional information added, such as how the fast-food industry affects the lives of young people beyond simply eating the stuff. Full Review (608 words).
Media Reviews
Publishers Weekly
A stinging, often startling expose on this country's pervasive, lucrative fast-food industry, for young people.
School Library Journal
An eye-opener for general readers who regularly indulge at the Golden Arches
Booklist - John Peters
Starred Review. The authors dish up a somewhat-less-stomach-churning look at the fast-food industry's growth, practices, and effects on public health.
The Independent (UK) Chew On This is a terrific read. A paired-down kids' menu to Fast Food Nation's whopper meal, it has lost none of its bite. Realigning the most salient points of the former book - where fast food comes from, what's in it, what it does to us - for nine- to 13-year-olds, and adding a side order of new findings, Schlosser still shocks.
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