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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…
• A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home.…
• Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much…
• The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important…
• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers…
• In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more…
• The industry doesn’t want you to know the truth about what you’re eating, because if you knew, you might not want to…
• Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the…
• What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food…
• 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…

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