Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Don't Eat This Book
Book Review: Interesting, important and...preachy...
Summary: 3 Stars
I've ordered the book after a friend told me that she could not ever eat at McDonalds again (having repeated the experiment of leave-on-shelf-burger and was horrified at the excellent state of self-mummification of the sandwich...and thus all the preservatives and processed materials in it). I found it interesting and informative, but I admit I felt rather preached to for parts of it, and it was rather redundant--after the first 50 pages, one could predict pretty much most of what was going to be written. The information IS important and puts together a gathering of statistics and details that some of us might come across in passing but not in such an organized way. At the same time, it does seem to give the air of "me me me" and returnes to the movie almost as if this was a companion book to the movie (and a promotional book for it) rather than a documentary in of itself.
I did find that my friend was right... Not that I really ever ate at McDonalds myself (well, long car trips with the arches the only food option for miles notwithstanding, when a rubbery chicken breast sandwich had to stand in for nourishment in cases of emergency...), but I did find that I cannot buy regular chicken (or beef) anymore--the conditions of these poor animals' lives somehow reaching a critical point in my brain--I always knew that they were mistreated and pumped full of stuff, but I didn't know some details that I'll spare you (in case you are reading this with coffee and snack at hand), and which made me shudder. I've had animals in the backyard growing up, and I would never want them treated as sub-living things, or to feed them things they were not meant to consume... In any event, it is a good book if you can sieve the preach from the matter. And it has its hilarities. If it were less self-promotional (and self-congratulatory), it would've been more credible.
Book Review: This book changed the way I eat
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good introduction into the investigation of what we eat. It pretty much describes the tip of the iceberg of the food industry's dark side. I have since changed my eating habits dramatically.
It's a great book and a really quick read. If this book is your introduction into the horror's of fast food-get it. However if you have been following this for sometime, you won't find anything new and the books 2004 copyright does make the info a bit dated. Overall though, I highly recommend it.