1. S4 Maine Sunday Telegram / Sunday, October 4, 2015
Retooled adult books serve up green issues for kids
“The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Young Readers Edition”:
Michael Pollan has rewritten his adult bestseller for any
of you who are ages 10 and up. (It’s not the first time;
an earlier teen version came out in 2009.) This edition
includes a lot of helpful graphics and lively, friendly
captions aimed right at you (Why Did the Chicken Cross
the Pasture?) as well as a new introduction by Pollan.
Learning to care where your food comes from and how
it gets made can feel like an overwhelming responsibility,
Pollan writes, but you should also see it as an opportunity
because “although you won’t be able to vote in elections
until you’re eighteen, you can vote with your fork now –
by choosing to eat foods that reflect your values, and to
avoid ones that don’t. Best of all, you can vote this way
not just once, but three times a day.” This gets four forks.
— MARY POLS
“Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About
Fast Food”: Eric Schlosser teamed up with journalist Charles
Wilson to reshape his influential 2001 “Fast Food Nation”
for you. As Schlosser said in an interview with the Houston
Chronicle when the preteen edition came out, “I love the
Harry Potter books. They’re not condescending. They are
extremely intelligent. They are really well written. I thought,
‘Why can’t there be nonfiction books that treat kids with
the same respect?’” Accordingly, “Chew on This” assumes
you can handle tough issues like slaughterhouses and labor
practices. And it describes things in terms you can relate to.
On a trip to a morgue, Schlosser and Wilson compare livers
from healthy and unhealthy dead people: “The two livers on
the table are especially gross. They seem like something from
one of those Halloween fairs at school, where you close your
eyes, put your hand in a bucket, and feel something cold and
wet and slimy.” Since many of you eat fast food, work at fast
food restaurants and guzzle soda, “Chew on This” speaks
directly to you. — PEGGY GRODINSKY
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