Greasy Kid Stuff
Posted by Review-a-Day, May 19, 2006 12:00 am No Comments Filed under: Review-a-Day. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
Reviewed by Abby McGanney Nolan
Washington Post Book World
" 'I aimed for the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach,' Upton Sinclair once said about his muckraking novel, The Jungle. Bringing to light the inhumane working conditions in slaughterhouses, Sinclair made meat-eaters, faced with the filthy process through which cattle were turned into their supper, more queasy than empathetic. One hundred years later, with Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson take the formidable research and rhetoric of Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation (2001) and aim them at teen readers — at their hearts, stomachs, consciences..." Read the entire Washington Post Book World Review.
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