Product DescriptionIn the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and what lurks between those sesame seed buns.
Praised for being accessible, honest, humorous, fascinating, and alarming, Chew On This was also repeatedly referred to as a must-read for kids who regularly eat fast food. Having all the facts about fast food helps young people make healthy decisions about what they eat. Chew On This shows them that they can change the world by changing what they eat.
Chew on This also includes action steps, a discussion guide, and a new afterword by the authors.
What Others Say
Fast Food
Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food is awsome. I was required to read it for a college Nutrition class and I am glad I did. I knew before starting Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food that fast food is bad for us, but now I know how discusting it is. Since reading Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food I have cut out a lot of the fast food that my family eats and I am hoping to cut it all out by the end of the year.
Only If You Like Disgusting Things
Chew on This by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson is about fast food and how bad it is for you. There are a lot of different stories in the book. One was about schools taking out soda machines and putting in water and healthier drinks, but still having McDonald's and Burger King which is even less healthy.
Chew on This was not my favorite book. I am a vegetarian so the meat part made me gag. The book takes a long time to read; it feels like forever. The things that I don't like are when they explain how they kill a chicken and that pink lemonade is really made from bugs. I know that the facts are disgusting, but it is awesome how bugs can turn lemonade pink. The purpose of writing the book is to convince the customers not to eat ... Read More
A good book for kids, but not for adults
I read Fast Food Nation a few years back and thoroughly enjoyed this. When I saw Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food, by the same author, I assumed it was a sequel to Fast Food Nation with updated information and targeted to the same audience. Unfortunately, my assumptions were incorrect. Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food is primarily targeted toward young readers. Where Fast Food Nation is jammed pack with great information, Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food is slimmer, has larger type, and many more pictures. It's breezy style and layout reminded me of a middle school textbook.
That's not to say that Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food is bad. It has a lot of interesting information (much of which is already covered by Fast Food Nation), but if you are expecting a follow up to the terrific Fast Food Nation, this is not it. Save ... Read More
Some social history (gasp!) with your meal
Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food is clearly aimed at the middle school and high school markets. It's written at a reading level well below the 10th-grade level at which most adult books aim. As a result, I sometimes found the style a bit annoying, and the authors repeat and explain things that I didn't need repeated or explained. Nonetheless, it was easy to forgive the authors some minor annoyance - - overall, this is an interesting and lively book.
Schlosser and Wilson tell us the story of fast food. It would be easy to take the position of muckraker and just expose dirty secrets of the industry. They do a little of that, but mostly they put the industry in historical perspective. How did fast food restaurants evolve? How did they knock off the local ... Read More
Great for middle grades
I purchased a set of five of these books for my seventh grade class to read in book groups. This has been one of the biggest hits of the class! EVERYONE wants to read it. (In junior high, this is rare.) Every day, a student approaches me to enthusiastically share a fact from the book. Science teachers have been asking me about it because the kids are telling them about it. I have only read parts of the book, but it is fascinating and the sources are well-documented. I would highly recommend Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food for all ages.
