Fast food / / Tamara Thompson, book editor
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| Titolo: |
Fast food / / Tamara Thompson, book editor
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| Pubblicazione: | Farmington Hills, Mich. : , : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, , [2015] |
| �2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (115 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 642/.10973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Convenience foods - United States |
| Fast food restaurants - United States | |
| Food industry and trade - United States | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ThompsonTamara |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fast food |
| ISBN: | 0-7377-7633-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910162721103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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At issue. . -Social issues.