"The importance of recalls is to show that……" — Eric Schlosser
"The importance of recalls is to show that contaminated meat is getting out the door. And when you look at these recalls, in many ways the most disturbing thing about these recalls is how little of the meat actually winds up back at the plant."
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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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In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now…
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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…
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Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that…
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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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