Eric Schlosser Quotes - Page 2

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

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Important, Nutrition

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.

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  Library, World, Stuff

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.

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  Mcdonalds, Ethos, Circles

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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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• 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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

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  Obsession, Mask

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• As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

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  Facts, Matter, Cases

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Eating, Fast Food

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

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  Way, Eating

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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.

  Eric Schlosser

  School, Kids, Garden

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

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  Hate, Way, Inevitable

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The people designing the weapons literally often didn't know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force - and a lot of people in the Air Force didn't understand some of the dangers. There's a very strong element of madness in this.

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  Strong, Air, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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