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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162721103321

Titolo

Fast food / / Tamara Thompson, book editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farmington Hills, Mich. : , : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, , [2015]

�2015

ISBN

0-7377-7633-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (115 pages)

Collana

At issue

Disciplina

642/.10973

Soggetti

Convenience foods - United States

Fast food restaurants - United States

Food industry and trade - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-109) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Fast food is harmful to people and the planet / Food Empowerment Project -- 2. Some fast food chains work toward sustainability / Barney Wolf -- 3. Fast food chains had better move past value meals and embrace health / Hank Cardello -- 4. Fast food options have not actually gotten healthier / Barbara Bronson Gray -- 5. Fast food is unfairly blamed for obesity / Roy T. Bergold Jr. -- 6. Fast food marketing should not target children / Jennifer L. Harris et al. -- 7. Parents are responsible for what children eat, not restaurants / The kNOw Youth Media -- 8. Requiring calories on fast food menus promotes better choices / Susan Craig and Chanel Caraway -- 9. Requiring calories on fast food menus makes no difference / Anne Hart -- 10. Fast food workers are exploited and underpaid / John Logan -- 11. In defense of the fast food industry / Jason Leavitt -- 12. Fast food is physically addictive / The Scripps Research Institute -- 13. The globalization of fast food has some benefits / Nishanth Uli -- 14. Americans' food choices should not be regulated / Michael L. Marlow and Sherzod Abdukadirov.

Sommario/riassunto

Provides a wide range of opinions on a specific social issue. Offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more-



to illuminate the issue. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations point to sources for further research.