"Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in……" — Eric Schlosser
"Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis."
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Eric Schlosser
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35 Quotes by Eric Schlosser
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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,…
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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…
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Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice…
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The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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