Eric Schlosser Quotes

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• Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged…
• 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 half…
• Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.
• The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool…
• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand…
• In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast…
• The industry doesn’t want you to know the truth about what you’re eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it,
• Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a…
• What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon…
• Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.
• The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
• If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are…
• The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder…
• By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.
• 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 the…
• I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.
• McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did…
• The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by…
• The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.
• A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

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