Fast food / Tamara Thompson, book editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Tamara, editor.

Series:

At issue. Social issues.

At issue

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convenience foods--United States.

Convenience foods.

Fast food restaurants--United States.

Fast food restaurants.

Food industry and trade--United States.

Food industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (115 pages).

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780737776331

0737776331

OCLC:

946078591