Latest Eric Schlosser Quotes from Interviews

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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 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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• The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've got to change what we're feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start.

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  Country, Children, Kids

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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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• There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow and prepare their own food. There's also a movement that's bringing farmers into schools and creating relationships between local farms and local cafeterias, so that instead of frozen mystery meat, you have fresh produce that's coming from the area that has a name and a face associated with it.

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  School, Kids, Garden

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• The federal government has more power to recall a defective stuffed animal who's little glass eye may fall off than to recall contaminated ground beef that could sicken or even kill hundreds if not thousands of people. The meat-packing industry is so powerful that it's managed to prevent the government from having this basic power of recalling a defective product.

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  Powerful, Fall, Eye

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

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  Way, Eating

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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.

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  Favors, Sugar, Taste

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• I think it's possible to have food that's healthy, that's good for you to eat, that's also inexpensive. We don't have to have this cheap, unhealthy food being so aggressively promoted.

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  Thinking, Healthy, Inexpensive

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• During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.

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  School, Might, Feedback

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• I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.

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  Fighting, Long, Important

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• I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.

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  School, Interesting, Students

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• Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.

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  Writing, Loss, Thinking

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• As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.

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  Trying, Dialogue, Reporters

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• A typical workday for me is getting up at about 5:00, 5:15 in the morning, getting some coffee or tea as quickly as possible, and then getting to my desk. And ideally, I'll start writing around 5:30, 5:45, and I'll write for three, four hours, and then I'll take a break, and read over what I write. Maybe about lunchtime, I'll go exercise or get out into the day. Then I'll either read over what I wrote the day before and quit work around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon and spend some time with my kids.

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  Morning, Coffee, Writing

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• I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.

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  Country, Book, Years

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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.

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  Book, Thinking, Two

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• Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

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  Book, People, Library

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• Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

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  Writing, Views, Trying

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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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• Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.

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  Students, Restaurants, Process

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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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• I think there could hardly be a more important subject than health and nutrition.

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  Thinking, Important, Nutrition

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• There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.

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  Strong, Children, Real

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