A review by stuhlsem
Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser

3.0

Having read Fast Food Nation, I wasn't surprised by much in Chew On This. Some of the descriptions were really well done (where chicken nuggets come from, what artificial coloring is made of), presumably to appeal to high schoolers. I was bothered by the lack of numbers and data, and by the absence of footnotes. I like being able to verify random things authors say, but I guess it might be less important to younger readers. I am glad to see that it is very accessible and interesting, which might convince people to change their eating habits earlier, but, honestly, I don't see it flying off the shelf (this is not a prediction, but rather an observation). The section on school gardens in the end was especially good. It inspired me to go out and check out the school in Portland with a garden.