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Fast Quotes by Eric Schlosser
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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 cannot order a…
- The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and…
- Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try…
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- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
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- Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
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