Common Quote by George Orwell

“In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck…

— José Ortega y Gasset

“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce all of…

— Derrick Jensen

Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own…

— Robert Kenner

“It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the…

— Wendell Berry

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

— Marcella Hazan

“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.”

— Bill Buford

For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person's position in society.

— Susie Dent

In our fast-food nation, we tend to think that the intellectual life, like everything else, can be had pre-chewed and in bulk just for…

— Norah Vincent

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

— Naomi Klein

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something…

— Margaret Visser