39 pages 1 hour read

Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser

Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

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The title of Schlosser and Wilson’s book is Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food. How do the authors address the subject of consumers’ unwillingness to think about where their food comes from?

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Fast food corporations repeatedly say that any adverse health conditions resulting from the consumption of their products are solely the fault of undisciplined individuals. How do Schlosser and Wilson show that this claim is untrue?

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How was the rise of fast food related to other 20th-century lifestyle changes, such as the rise of the automobile, mass entertainment, and the factory assembly line?

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