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Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, has written for Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and The New Yorker, among others. He has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting. His books: Reefer Madness, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, and Chew on This which he has co-authored, have been national bestsellers. Fast Food Nation is assigned reading at universities across the country and was adapted to film in 2006.
His recent works include, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety (2013), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for History award, and Gods Of Metal (2015).
Schlosser has addressed the United States House of Representatives and Senate about the risk to the food supply from bioterrorism and has lectured at universities across the country, including his alma mater Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, College of the Holy Cross, and Claremont College.
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Kids love fast food. Why did you write a book for them about
its history and harmful consequences?
An editor came up with the idea not long after the 2002
paperback publication of Fast Food Nation [Eric's
best-selling exposé of the fast-food industry, written for
adults]. We were drawn to the challenge of recasting the
material for a younger readership. It seemed that the people
who needed this information most didn't have a way to get it
directly. We decided to write a book for young people that
wouldn't be condescending, preachy, or hectoring. We hope
that Chew on This respects the intelligence of its
readers and challenges kids to think for themselves.
The fast-food industry spends billions of dollars every year
marketing unhealthy food to children. We felt that kids
needed to hear the other side of the story. The eating
habits that a person develops as a child are difficult to
break later. And if a child is obese by the age of thirteen,
he or she is likely to remain obese for life. The
nutritional education of American children shouldn't be left
to the fast food, junk food, and...
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