Eric Schlosser

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much…

— Eric Schlosser

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…

— Eric Schlosser

I never consciously set out to model myself after Upton Sinclair.

— Eric Schlosser

“The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts,…

— Eric Schlosser

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

— Eric Schlosser

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.

— Eric Schlosser

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

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

— Eric Schlosser

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

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

“The cable and the X-unit both had female plugs. Somehow the cable had been installed backward. It would take a couple of…

— Eric Schlosser

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

I think there could hardly be a more important subject than health and nutrition.

— Eric Schlosser

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

— Eric Schlosser

There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.

— Eric Schlosser

Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now…

— Eric Schlosser

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of…

— Eric Schlosser

The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've…

— Eric Schlosser

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

— Eric Schlosser

One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in…

— Eric Schlosser

I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for…

— Eric Schlosser

I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their children are eating.

— Eric Schlosser

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists,…

— Eric Schlosser

I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly…

— Eric Schlosser

If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the…

— Eric Schlosser