Chew On This: Everything You Don T Want To Know About Fast Food

In the nonfiction text, Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, Eric Schlosser, the author, explains the effects of fast food restaurants on the small town of Martinsburg, West Virginia. Surprisingly, some effects were good, but others were not so good. The new fast food restaurants made Martinsburg turn from a quiet town, into a large, busy town. Though fast food restaurants provide a lot of jobs, it does not pay much. Fast food restaurants often mistreat their animals, but they do use real meat, sometimes. McNuggets from McDonald’s are approximately 50% real meat, and 50% fats, preservatives, sugar, sodium, and carbohydrates, but fast food products are starting to get healthier. These arguments show the upsides and
This is important because if millions of people did not have a job, more people would be poor, and there would be more people on the streets. We do not want this to happen because then the economy could collapse. Also, for teens, working at a fast food restaurant is a good way to make money for college and to gain experience before working at a more advanced job. They can earn some money this way from the $1,200 the average American pays each year for fast food, which is equal fast food twice a week. Another positive effect of fast food restaurants is that it is starting to get healthier, and you can make healthier
Nutrition labels are also available in plain sight, so you can make healthier choices based on the content of the food. Cooking methods are also getting healthier, like broiling and grilling instead of frying foods. Despite these healthier choices, the food is still extremely unhealthy. According to Frank Carson, “7 Unappetizing Truths About America’s Favorite Fast Food”, “We should also probably point out that only 50 percent of the chicken nugget is actually chicken, and the rest of the nuggets consist of sugar, preservatives, baking soda, and chemicals with unrecognizable names.” Carson is talking about McDonald’s McNuggets. They might taste good, but they contain only 50% real chicken with added substances to make it taste better. The other 50% contains unrecognizable names which are not good because they are usually chemicals that are not good for your body. They could give you diseases and make you sick. Lastly, fast food farms mistreat their animals according to Frank Carson, 7 Unappetizing Truths About America’s Favorite Fast