Talking of ingredients Spurlock explains that a principle ingredient of a Chicken McNugget is chicken flavouring. Blimey! Does food really have to like this?

Apparently not! The second half of the book talks about people, schools and communities that have taken matters into their own hands. One of the problems seems to be the infiltration on a junk food culture into schools. Corporate interests have taken over suppliers of school meals. Driven by the demands of low costs caused by education budget cut backs fast food companies fill the void with high fat, high salt, high sugar and high sodium products. Diets like this effect children's behaviour. (When I was at school only custard and semolina were the great evils.) As an incentive these companies offer schools a kickback from sales to ingratiate. One of the eye-openers in this book is the insidious marketing practice of giant food companies peddling a cradle to (early) grave philosophy.

Some schools have bucked the trend, bringing in fresh food, fruit drinks, deli-style sandwiches and more healthier choices. They have been surprised by the uptake of healthy food by the pupils.

If this is your first book on the fast food industry then you'll enjoy it. I say 'enjoy it' but, like a car crash, you'll want to turn away. You can't. I would like to give this book five stars. The text seems to be well researched and put together. However, the author puts in some incidental opinions that does discolour the overall tone, but that is small criticism on a very good book.