Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
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This young readers edition of Eric Schlossers best-selling Fast Food Nation tells the fascinating, frightening truth about how the fast food industry has been feeding off children for generations.Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. But where do fast food hamburgers come from? And what makes those fries taste so good? When Eric Schlossers 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 kids and teens need to know. In Chew On This, they share the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns.
Why it’s great
Where do those fast-food burgers and fries really come from? This young-readers version of the bestselling Fast Food Nation digs into the industry that markets so heavily to kids, uncovering eye-opening truths about how the food gets made and sold. Provocative and well-researched, it pushes middle-grade readers to think critically about the powerful business forces shaping what ends up on their trays.
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