Quote by Ellen Ruppel Shell Download Open image ““Americans pay less for food than do citizens of any other developed nation.”” — Ellen Ruppel Shell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We spend a trillion dollars a year on food, but it’s only 9.4 percent of our expendable income, the lowest percentage of any country… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.” — Barry Estabrook Copy Share Image
“Americans are nutrient-deficient because they do not eat a sufficient quantity of fresh produce.” — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries.” — Greg Baxter Copy Share Image
“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the measure of a country isn't in how its richest citizens fare, but… — Abigail Reynolds Copy Share Image
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“Americans wanted cheap stuff—and the harder they shopped for the cheapest stuff, the more they helped drive down the wages of people who made… — Brian Alexander Copy Share Image
“If you spend less on cheap food, you’ll spend more on health care.” — Deborah Kesten Copy Share Image
“Without improvement in the economics of each nation how can there be better wages for it's citizens” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
“At a national level, the study found that thanks to Wal-Mart the total earnings of retail workers declined by $4.5 billion, with most of… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“Andrew Young, a former U.S. Congressman and U.N. ambassador turned Wal-Mart spokesman, seemed to offer an explanation: “Poverty in America,” he said, “is market… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“Cheap objects resist involvement. We tend to invest less in their purchase, care, and maintenance, and that's part of what makes them so attractive.… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“The typical capitalists are lovers of power rather than sensual indulgence, but they have the same tendency to crush and to take tribute that… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“If enough dishonest merchants water their milk, more and more customers will forget what normal milk tastes like and buy only the cheaper -… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“Discounters gave the common man and woman the opportunity to eschew the cobbler and the darning needle, to break in a brand-new pair of… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“since wage and benefit savings are not the main part of the cost advantage for the company it could (conceivably) “continue to pass on… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“Mexico has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs to China. U.S. Department of Commerce data reveal that from 2002 to 2003 Mexico lost market… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“Craftsmanship cements a relationship of trust between buyer and seller, worker and employer, and expects something of both. It is about caring about the… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“MIT-trained urban development expert Wig Zamore said: “IKEA is the least sustainable retailer on the planet.” — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“...mass market consumption offers the facade of social equality without forcing society to go through the hard work of redistributing wealth. Low prices lead… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
“Compared with the early 1970s, in 2007 we spent 32 percent less on clothes, 18 percent less on food, 52 percent less on appliances,… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
