Chew On This is written very well. It continuously attacks McDonald's and other fast food restaurant chains for their practices. I think this book is a triumph for finally telling the public what's goes into their food. The book starts out retelling the humble history of the world-famous hamburger. Then the book discusses how McDonald's got its start. This is where the book starts to get interesting. It talks about how companies advertise and feed off kids. I was disgusted to find that companies are actually using brain research to sell their products to kids!
Another topic Schlosser talks about is the way fast food chains hire teenagers to run the restaurants. I was appalled too see that some teens in fast food work an average of thirty hours a week, and get paid minimum wage (only $5.15 an hour in 2006)! Even managers, who earn only $25,000 a year, work sixty to seventy hours a week.
The way McDonald's treats its workers is ghastly. There is the story of Sadi Lambert, who worked from eight in the morning until half past three the next morning when she was only sixteen! Her manager decided to give her a thank- you gift for working nineteen hours straight. The gift was but a bag of candy. I found these practices to be absolutely moronic. I think that all people should read Chew On This and find out what the real price is of the hamburger you're about to eat.
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