His work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly. His first book, FAST FOOD NATION was a major international bestseller. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New. 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. Eric Schlosser is an author and investigative journalist based in New York. Eric Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness, as well as the co-author of a childrens book, Chew on This. Now Schlosser, along with co-writer Charles Wilson, has investigated the subject further, uncovering new facts children need to know. Chew on this the unhappy truth about fast food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson 5.00 3 Ratings 44 Want to read 4 Currently reading 2 Have read Overview View 10 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 2006 Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. 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. But do kids know what they’re eating? Where do fast food hamburgers come from? And what makes those fries taste so good? One out of every five public schools in the United States now serves brand name fast food. It begins in 1885 with a fifteen-year-old boy at a Wisconsin fair who invents the hamburger and it winds up at the recent opening of a Burger King in Baghdad. Its a book both for and about young people. Not only has fast food reached into the toy industry, it’s moving into our schools. Chew on This traces the rise of the fast-food industry and its effects on how we work, how we eat, and how we live. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast food restaurant.

Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald’s? It’s true. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. Their combined efforts result in the book Chew on This: Everything You Dont Want to Know About Fast Food, which exploits the gruesome truths behind fast food.

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