non-finction

After reading Chew On This, by Eric Schlosser I have definitely changed in the way I think about fast food. Before I read this book I didn't know anything about what was in my food, or where it came from, or how it was made. However, reading this book acknowledged me to the wonders of theses questions. I now know that the fast food is processed and frozen, and shipped from far away. The more healthy, and better for the environment way would be fresh, local meat. Also I now know that the animals were being treated very badly in slaughter houses. Knowing as much as I do now, the less I want to go to McDonald's or Burger King, and give them money. I think that's what the book was intending for people to do...take action. That doesn't just mean arguing that fast food is bad for you, but stop getting it!


What the big fast food companies are doing now might not be so bad, but we'll pay for it in the long run. They are feeding cows corn! Cows don't eat corn, that's like forcing a human to eat flowers just to make them fatter(not true, hypothetically). This might not seem so bad but first, the cows are living so much shorter lives. Second, many years from now the cows will be sick! That means they will look and be totally different animals. If the cows get sick and we eat the cows, we'll get sick. That's why people all over should learn about the food they eat, and educate others. Then they can make the decision whether or not they will stop buying fast food. It is unhealthy and wrong to eat their meat.

I really liked this book and a had a very fun and interesting time reading it. I would recommend it to all middle schoolers because a lot of kids at that age eat a lot of junk food. If they read Chew On This, I don't think they would eat as much junk food, or they would at least think about it before they buy it. It is very important for people to know what they are eating, and Chew On This helped me know that, and hopefully lots of other people and kids too. This is the age and time where kids decide if they are going to be healthy or unhealthy, skinny or fat. It all relies on what they eat everyday!

I also think they should make this book for younger kids, like elementary, and adults. They should try to get the word out no matter what it takes!

non-fiction

The theme in the book Chew On This by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson, is how major fast food companies trick everyone who walks in their door, or sees one of their advertisements. They do this by putting salt in everything they sell to making you want to buy more drinks. And by showing skinny, healthy kids eating unhealthy food. They trick you into giving them more money and by thinking their food is a lot more healthy then it actually is. Most people don't even know what they're eating or where it came from. That's what Chew On This is trying to change.

Since I started reading this book whenever I see an ad, or a fast food store I cannot help thinking of the sad, horrible lives the poor cows and chickens have to go through before making it the plate millions of hungry people. The cows and chickens don't live as a normal animal should live. First of all, they only feed the cows corn instead of grass. This makes them grow much faster, make them sick and unhealthy, and it also means that they will be slaughtered quicker (shorter life). Slaughterhouses also chain chickens down to make them unable to move within a couple of feet. The chickens become overly fat and makes them barely able to take their own weight. What slaughterhouses do to the animals is wrong and not justified. They shouldn't take animals out of their normal habitat for any circumstance!

The purpose of the book is to make people think. They want to make people think about where the food is coming from, what the food is made out of, how much money is the company making. This book makes me want to change my eating habits, and also think about these huge companies with billions of dollars that just want more. I can relate this back to "World on Fire"because, big companies are getting a lot of money and not using it for the right cause. They spend a lot of money on ads, when they should spend a lot of their money on the types of things that Sarah McLahlan did. It would only take them a small amount of money they make to support something really big, and do something that is right. If big corporations like McDonalds did that, I would have a lot more respect towards them.