Fast Food Nation Quotes

• 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 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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• 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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• In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

  Eric Schlosser

  Book, Car, Video

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.3, 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.

  Eric Schlosser

  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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• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

  Eric Schlosser

  Running, Men, Hamburgers

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Eric Schlosser

  Adolescentes, Chicos, Años

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

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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.

  Eric Schlosser

  Trabajo, Niños, Lucha

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

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

  Eric Schlosser

  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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• The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

  Ray Kroc

  Organization, Individual

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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.

  Eric Schlosser

  Attitude, Technology, Thinking

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

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• Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Book, Vegetarian, Made

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• Los que pensamos en lo que comemos, en cómo se cultiva, los que nos preocupamos por el impacto ambiental de los alimentos, hemos sido educados por libros fabulosos, como Fast Food Nation y documentales como Food Inc. Pero a pesar de estos y otros grandes proyectos que arrojan una luz crítica sobre el tema, cada año la industria alimentaria gasta literalmente decenas de millones de dólares para dar forma a la conversación pública sobre nuestro sistema alimentario.

  Anna Lappe

  Libro, Pensamiento, Impacto

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

  Alice Waters

  Problem, Fast Food, Nations

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• I actually didn't read the book [Fast Food Nation]. I wasn't aware of it. But when I read the script, I thought "Wow." It became a project that was just so exciting to be a part of. Maybe a few times in a career [you] get a chance for a role that really means something, and this was it.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Book, Mean, Careers

  Fuente: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Book, College, Interesting

  Fuente: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• Doing this movie [Fast Food Nation] made me realize that our bodies are digesting things that it's not meant to digest. It's pretty bad for you. The cast is [now] very, very aware of where we get our food and what we put in our bodies.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Body, Realizing, Made

  Fuente: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• El libro de Eric Schlosser sobre la economía y las estrategias del negocio de la comida rápida debería ser leído por cualquiera a quien le guste llevar a sus hijos a restaurantes de comida rápida. Yo, desde luego, no volveré a hacerlo. Emplea una larga y fría quema, una silenciosa y apasionada acumulación de detalles, con calma, ingenio y claridad. (...) Fast Food Nation es testimonio del rigor y la seriedad del mejor periodismo estadounidense, legible, fiable y extremadamente cuidado.

  Adam Nicolson

  Niños, Libro, Largo

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• Fast Food Nation era aburrido y estaba dirigido a yuppies, y los yuppies no comen comida rápida.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Yuppies, Boring, Eating Fast Food

  Entrevista con Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. 7 de mayo de 2008.

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