Description
| Product ID: | 9780141318448 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Chew on This |
| Subtitle: | Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food |
| Authors: | Author: Eric Schlosser |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage general interest: Work, politics and society, Work & industry / world of work (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Talks about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what goes on in the slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour labs, global advertising, merchandising in UK schools, mass production and the exploitation of young workers in the thousands of fast-food outlets throughout the world. Based on Eric Schlosser''s bestselling Fast Food Nation, this is the shocking truth about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what goes on in the slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour labs, global advertising, merchandising in UK schools, mass production and the exploitation of young workers in the thousands of fast-food outlets throughout the world. It also takes a look at the effects on the environment and the highly topical issue of obesity. Meticulously researched, lively and informative, with first-hand accounts and quotes from children and young people, Eric Schlosser presents the facts in such a way that allows readers to make up their own minds about the incredible fast food phenomenon. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-05-04 |
