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Overview. Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food, co-written by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson, aims to show young readers “the ripple effect near and far” of the fast food industry (199). Schlosser and Wilson go on to show that fast food can affect consumers on the immediate level of their own bodies and on ...
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ERIC SCHLOSSER CHARLES WILSON 2006 In the fashion of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle—which revealed the dangerous, unhealthy, and unfair world of the meatpacking industry at the turn of the twentieth century—Chew on This provides a gritty perspective on the fast food industry of today. Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson use statistics, personal intervie...
Eric Schlosser was born August 17, 1959, in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree in American History from Princeton University, where he experimented with different forms of writing while editing the university's humor magazine, writing plays, and studying journalism. Following his years at Princeton, Schlosser intended to pursue an aca...
Introduction Chew on Thisgreets the reader with statistics: “Every day about one out of fourteen Americans eats at a McDonald's. Every month about nine out of ten American children visit one.” The introduction offers McDonald's as a symbol for the fast food industry at large, but proceeds to establish the purpose behind the book: to inspire the rea...
Carl Archer Inspired by the McDonald brothers' Speedee Service System, Carl Archer opened Carl's Drive-In Barbeque in 1941. The restaurant eventually grew into Carl's Jr., one of the most popular fast food chains on the West Coast.
The 2006 movie Fast Food Nation adapts the books written by Schlosser and Wilson. Richard Linklater wrote and directed the film, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is not a documen...
The Effect of Fast Food on the Body The main message of Chew on This is two-fold: (1) fast food is not part of a wholesome, well-balanced diet like its marketing purports it to be, and (2) the fast food industry adversely affects people on a physical level. Obviously, the high calorie, high sodium, high fat, high sugar content of fast food affects ...
Research The foundation of Chew on Thisis derived from research conducted by Schlosser and Wilson. Schlosser and Wilson had to interview many people for this book, including employees of fast
The afterword of Chew on This, is about both the direct and indirect public response to the book. Not long after the book's release, former President Bill Clintonand Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee...The “Mr. McDonald's Breasts” section of Chew on Thisprovides gruesome details about the events and procedures of the chicken processing industry. Write a one-page essay about how this particular de...Some critics of Chew on Thissay that fast food is not to blame for obesity and other health problems, but that people should take personal responsibility for the choices they make, particularly as...Chew on Thisillustrates its points using several real-world examples based on interviews that the authors conducted, including the stories of Danielle Brent and Pascal McDuff. To gain a new perspec...The Drive-In Culture When the fast food industry was just beginning, the drive-in restaurant made its mark. Born by the automobile industryand a population on the go, the drive-in restaurant provided a place for people to be seen tooling around in their new jalopies. These restaurants opened in warm climates so customers could eat with their window...
Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson's Chew on This was published by Houghton Mifflin in Boston, 2006. The book, a version of Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nationaimed at the youth market, became a bestseller and received accolades from reviewers writing for national newspapers and journals. Representatives from the fast food industry, however, di...
May 10, 2006 · Eric Schlosser, Charles Wilson. Bestselling author Eric Schlosser takes what he learnt and documented in his popular book, Fast Food Nation, and presents it to preteens and adolescents - the fast food industry's biggest market. Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn’t survive without them.
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About the Book. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food is a carefully researched and engaging text that teachers will find useful in a variety of disciplines, including English, nutrition, health, social studies, debate, mathematics, history, and creative writing. It encourages young readers eleven and up to look ...
Chapter 3 Summary: “McJobs”. Fast food and the automobile have changed the face of American cities, making them all appear like the kind of suburban development pioneered in Los Angeles. Schlosser and Wilson explain how “fast food restaurants often serve as the first wave of sprawl, rolling into a new area and then starting a flood of ...
In this "New York Times" bestseller, Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") and Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry, offering a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young.
In Chew on This, we talk a lot about sustainable agriculture and what kind of practices on the land you can do for generations. There’s also a sustainable lifestyle — what kind of habits are you going to develop young that you can have for the rest of your life. Another theme in Chew on This is the ripple effect of each fast food purchase.
