Product Description

Based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling "Fast Food Nation", this is the shocking truth about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what goes on in the slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour labs, global advertising, merchandising in UK schools, mass production and the exploitation of young workers in the thousands of fast-food outlets throughout the world. It also takes a look at the effects on the environment and the highly topical issue of obesity. Meticulously researched, lively and informative, with first-hand accounts and quotes from children and young people, Eric Schlosser presents the facts in such a way that allows readers to make up their own minds about the incredible fast food phenomenon.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110484 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling "Fast Food Nation", this is the shocking truth about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what goes on in the slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour labs, global advertising, merchandising in UK schools, mass production and the exploitation of young workers in the thousands of fast-food outlets throughout the world. It also takes a look at the effects on the environment and the highly topical issue of obesity. Meticulously researched, lively and informative, with first-hand accounts and quotes from children and young people, Eric Schlosser presents the facts in such a way that allows readers to make up their own minds about the incredible fast food phenomenon.

About the Author
Eric Schlosser is an author and investigative journalist based in New York. His first book, FAST FOOD NATION was a major international bestseller. His work has appeared in 'Atlantic Monthly', 'Rolling Stone' and the Guardian. CHEW ON THIS is his first book for children.

Customer Reviews

A study of fast food
First the author pictures the history of the rise of fast food in the United States with the McDonald's brothers. Then he takes the strong impulse we all feel - our craving for sweet, salty, fatty fast foods - and make us think about it. "Chew On This" tells us where fast food comes from, who produces it, what it contains and what happens when we consume it. The book is about fast food and the world it has created.
Mr Schlosser shows us that the companies which sell fast food don't want us to think about it as fast food. They don't want us to know where it comes from and how it is made. They just want us to buy it. Indeed no fast food chain ever shows us the factories where chips are produced. They would never dare show us the slaughterhouses where cattle are processed into ground beef. We will never know what strange-sounding chemicals flavour our milkshakes. We will never se an advertisement showing overweight and unhealthy children stuffing their faces with greasy fries at a fast food restaurant.
In this study readers will learn how and why it is vital for fast food chains to get children into their restaurants, how they treat the teenagers employed in their kitchens and how they make their food since it is an industry which both feeds and feeds off the young.
Readers already acquainted with Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" will probably find that this book is simply an enlarged version of the previous one. In other words reading "Fast Food Nation" is quite enough to convince you that fast food is bad for you.

Poor - a rebadged book of Fast Food Nation
How disappointing. I thought this would be some fresh thinking after a really good first book "Fast Food Nation". Instead, this was a book of repetition, covering old ground, and nothing new. I felt cheated by buying a good I essentially have..

Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
I saw Eric Schlosser talking at the Hay Literary Festival this year and this book is a rewrite of Fast Food Nation. It's sole intention is to bring the information to younger readers. This I got from the horse's mouth, so to speak.