Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

Charles Wilson · Eric Schlosser

Feb 2013 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

This has been a great book so far. My class has just started reading it. But, the author's intention was not to discourage you from eating these things, but rather ti make you think before you eat. I still eat chicken and beef, but I have lessened how much fast food I eat. I however, would rather raise my own broilers and chickens for butcher. I already get my own eggs. And now we have a couple goats, so maybe some milk next fall. And who knows where my life will lead, but I know that before I consume something, I will first consider where it came from.

This book is amazing you should read it the book tells u things u that u didn't know😊

This book inspired me to stop eating fast food and inspired me to only eat organic meats!!!:D

About the author

Charles Wilson grew up in West Virginia and has written for several newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. He has worked on the staff of The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine and has rounded up beef cattle on horseback at his uncle’s ranch.

Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Nation, and The New Yorker. He has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting.