Chew on This by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson mainly talks about the various effects of fast food, for example, effects of fast food on health, people, the fast food industry, and even different food cultures. At the same time, it also reveals the true face of the food we often eat, fast food. All the things people don’t want to know and fast food companies don’t want to tell you are included in this book too. If you’re interested in fast food or fast food industry, why don’t you check out this book?

When I’m reading my book, one of the big central ideas in my book was: Fast food industry is developing very fast, it is quietly becoming a part of human’s life. Usually, the first thought in our mind is fast food. When we are busy, we will choose fast food. When we can’t think of what to eat, we will choose fast food. When we don’t have enough money, we will still choose fast food. Here’s my idea:

Now is the most obvious and most important central idea in this book: People don’t know what they are eating! Basically, the whole book is centered on this central idea, also the author wrote this book because of this. 

When I was almost finished reading the book, I found a part that I think was very important, so I just reread the part and collected some information. These information helped me get back to the central idea I have: People don’t know what they are eating. I compare the information I just collected with the information I collected before and I found some thing interesting: everything seems to have changed, but in fact some things are still the same, see my notes here:

When I started reading this book, I came up with a question: why do people eat fast food and why is fast food invented? So I create a Cause & Effects notebook page to find out the answers. After I’m finished, I found the answer, and I also realize that there are always reasons in people’s mind that is more important than the adverse effects of fast food, which makes people continue to eat and buy fast food.

Food is a very important part of our life, so what does fast food specifically bring to us and what effects does it have? If you are interested in these, please check out Chew On This.