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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…
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A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home.…
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Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much…
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The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important…
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The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers…
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In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more…
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The industry doesn’t want you to know the truth about what you’re eating, because if you knew, you might not want to…
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Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the…
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What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food…
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Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.
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The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
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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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Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off…
— Michael Pollan
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Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
— Frances Moore Lappé
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I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that…
— Michael Pollan
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...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in…
— Richard Heinberg
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We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need…
— Mark Bittman
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What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food…
— Eric Schlosser
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We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.
— Vandana Shiva
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As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global…
— Ellen Gustafson
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By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem…
— Janet Poppendieck
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The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that…
— Walden Bello
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Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
— Joel Salatin
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