Chew on This - Schlosser and Wilson

Angelica Garcia

November 25, 2011

English 2; Period 5

Ms.Cohen

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In the book Chew on This the authors Schlosser and Wilson provide many stories to discourage the readers from eating fast food. Many of these stories are about obesity, lies about food products, and slaughtering animals. The stories they give are very convincing on not eating fast food. They made me think twice before eating any type of food and drink. Do you really know what you’re putting in your mouth when you eat fast food?

A story on obesity that Schlosser and Wilson provide us with is “Big”. That story really got to me because it showed me how unhealthy it is to eat fast food. Sam ate fast food daily and he weighed so much he had to go through a risky surgery. After he had the gastric bypass he could never eat like a normal person ever again. It would take him up to fifteen hours just to finish a big mac. I never want that to happen to me. Schlosser and Wilson want to help us learn that eating too much fast food is bad for our health. It can cause us to go through surgery not because we want to get skinnier but because we may suffer from heart attacks, respiratory illnesses, or other health issues.

Schlosser and Wilson provide so many examples on how the fast food and soda companies lie about their products. The best example I think they share with us is in the story “The secret of the Fries.” In that story they tell us that McDonalds’s cooked their fries in beef oil. For a very long time before anyone knew what was really in the fries McDonald’s had said “…that its French fries were cooked in pure vegetable oil and could be eaten by vegetarians” (125). Not informing the customers what is really in the food is wrong! It’s not right how big corporations like McDonalds can just lie to their customers like that. Schlosser and Wilson are trying to explain to us that you must not always believe