Eric Schlosser Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Eating, Fast Food

• 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.

  Eric Schlosser

  Want, Might, Eating

• 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.

  Eric Schlosser

  Children, People, Marketing

• The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000…. Now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused, and the food has become much more dangerous in ways that are deliberately hidden from us. This isn’t just about what we’re eating. It’s about what we’re allowed to say. What we’re allowed to know.

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  Animal, Years, Lines

• 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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• We can have Americans eating affordably and eating in a way that's sustainable.

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  Way, Eating

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• The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.

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  Long, Add, Cost

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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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