Eric Schlosser Quotes

• Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

  Eric Schlosser

  Real, Taste, Cost

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• The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.

  Eric Schlosser

  Struggle, Doubt, Twenties

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.

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  Home, United States, Meals

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

  Eric Schlosser

  Favors, Sugar, Taste

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• Hace veinte años, los adolescentes estadounidenses bebían el doble de leche que de refrescos; ahora beben el doble de refrescos que de leche.

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  Teenage, Boys, Years

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

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  Important, Tools, Worship

  "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal". Book by Eric Schlosser, January 17, 2001.

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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 current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

  Eric Schlosser

  Ignorance, Years, Survival

  "Fast Food Nation". Book by Eric Schlosser, January 17, 2001.

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• La forma en que comemos ha cambiado más en los últimos 50 años que en los 10.000 anteriores .... Ahora nuestros alimentos proceden de enormes cadenas de montaje en las que se maltrata a los animales y a los trabajadores, y los alimentos se han vuelto mucho más peligrosos en formas que se nos ocultan deliberadamente. No se trata sólo de lo que comemos. Se trata de lo que se nos permite decir. De lo que se nos permite saber.

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  Animal, Years, Lines

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• Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.

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  Children, People, Marketing

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• 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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  Marijuana, Psychosis, Years

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• La comida rápida actual es barata cuando se compra, pero los costes a largo plazo de su consumo y los costes a largo plazo para la sociedad son demasiado elevados. Esta comida barata, cuando se suman todos los costes totales, es demasiado cara.

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  Long, Add, Cost

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• The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

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  United States, Inmates, Prison

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

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  People, Taste, Care

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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, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

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  Attitude, Technology, Thinking

  Eric Schlosser (2002). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, Harper Perennial

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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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  Meals, Beef, Favourite

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• When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised.

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  Thinking, Meals, Body

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• I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

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  Teacher, Real, Kids

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• If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed.

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  Secret, Wish, Important

  Eric Schlosser (2004). “Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's been a growing effort to kick soda out of the schools. And governors as different as Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and Mike Huckabee in Arkansas have worked hard to get soda and junk food out of their state schools, which is good.

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  School, California, Effort

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• The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

  Eric Schlosser

  Christian, Arches, Golden

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 want to eat it.

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  Want, Might, Eating

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• Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.

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  Jobs, Children, Fighting

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.

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  Drinking, Kids, Ideas

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• We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it.

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  Thinking, Connected

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• I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I hope they just read from the beginning to the end and be made to think about the subject. Then they can come to their own conclusions.

  Eric Schlosser

  Book, Thinking, Two

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