Death Quote by Mary Roach

“Eating organs, in 1943, could degrade one’s social standing. Americans preferred bland preparations of muscle meat partly because for as long as they could…

— Mary Roach

“Europeans had thought only of enriching themselves as the local population starved to death.58”

— Peter Frankopan

“she could only hope these visitors from the stars were as benign and enlightened as the British explorers who landed upon heathen islands, bringing…

— Samuel Peralta

“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors…

— George Orwell

“Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society.…

— David Grann

“I mean it. Aside from the old coastal cities, which in Australia are still very young themselves, what you have is a vast stretch…

— Sam Starbuck

“Producing and eating our own food is, historically, much of what made us Americans and not subjects of European powers. While other colonies required…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a…

— Karen Armstrong

“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.”

— Patrick Süskind

“I should have chose starvation in my own country over abundance in a strange one.”

— Anne Sweazy-Kulju

“Early Arctic explorers made this same crucial error. They excitedly envisioned the place and came to it fortified by their own cultural assumptions. The…

— Zack Eswine

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse