Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“Whatever replaces the fast food industry should be regional, diverse, authentic, unpredictable, sustainable, profitable--and humble. It should know its limits.” — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home.… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it.… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“A nationwide study published by the USDA in 1996 found that [...] 78.6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century — a set of attitudes,… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“Widespread introduction of the process [of irradiating foods] has thus far been impeded, however, by a reluctance among consumers to eat things… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Studies have found that preparing your own food is usually healthier and less expensive than buying fast food. But most people just… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers---those things are built into the operating systems and machines.… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“The cable and the X-unit both had female plugs. Somehow the cable had been installed backward. It would take a couple of days to… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
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