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Charles Wilson

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Senior news producer at "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." Alum of New York Times and The New Yorker. Co-author of books "The Good Food Revolution" and "Chew on This." ...more

This is a brief piece I wrote for The New Yorker's website on a tornado that struck a school near my great-grandfather’s home in southwestern Virginia—and the poignant song it inspired. Read more of this blog post »

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	Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser, Charles Wilson (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 5,014 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen, Charles Wilson (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. Despite”
― Charles Wilson, Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

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“Americans now eat about 13 billion hamburgers every year. If you put all those burgers in a straight line, they would circle the earth more than thirty-two times.”
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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

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