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.