Chew On This III

Having finally finished Chew On This, I will never eat at a McDonald's again. As I approached the end of the book, I learned about the horrid practices theough which chicken and beef are slaughtered and processed. Chickens were shackled, electrified, had their throats slit, and then were boiled. Sometimes, a chiken managed to survive the other steps of the procedure and wa boiled alive! Cattle were processed by mainly hand, and I frowned at all the accidents workers suffer, mostly cuts. Also, I learned about the fact that people urinate and defecate right next to meat that people would soon be eating!

The next chapter was about obesity and how one person managed to cure himself of it. This chapter was the story of a boy named Sam Fabrikant. Sam weighed 300 pounds and was only sixteen years old. He decided to take a risk and cure himself by undergoing a gastric bypass surgery. In this surgery, surgeons reduce the size of a person's stomach, from the size of a deflated football to the same size of a golf ball. The book talks about Sam's experiences and about other things that fast food can do to your body.

The last chapter was a grand finale. It was about all the things that were happening now and what we could do to keep ourselves healthy. I was suprised to learn that fast-food chains were so desperate to make money that they would open Burger Kings, McDonald's, and KFCs in war-torn Baghdad, Iraq! Schlosser also talked about one Alice Waters. She was a restaurant owner who turned a nearby rundown school into a beautiful building, where a there was a garden where kids could grow their own food, learn to cook it, then eat it. I admire Alice Waters for her vision of a world where food isn't just a meal that is soon forgotten and is usually made with corporately produced vegetables. She thinks that meals should be atime where everyone gets together and eats fresh, wholesome food. Overall, I loved this book and am thinking about reading his other book, Fast Food Nation. Chew On This is a book to be reckoned with. Its shocking detail has the ability to start a much needed revolution. Everyone needs to read this book.