Food Industry Quotes

• People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, People, Attention

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• The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Practice, Development, Framework

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• In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

  Bob Ney

  Years, Trials, Safe

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• Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Incentives, Bills

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• However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Epidemics, Practice

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

  Pierre Dukan

  Years, Trying, Firsts

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• Entertainment, in the end, is a food industry for feeling.

  Jenova Chen

  Feelings, Entertainment, Ends

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• The fast-food industry has moved into the grocery store, so you no longer have to go to a fast-food chain to find problematic foods.

  Michael Moss

  Fast Food, Chains, Stores

  "Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food". www.democracynow.org. March 1, 2013.

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• Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

  Michael Pollan

  Demand, Sensitive, Consumers

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• Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

  Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

  Dark, Independence, Age

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• People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.

  Anna Lappe

  Sports, Children, Team

  "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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• It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

  Ron Reagan

  Animal, Opportunity, Pigs

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• People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Responsibility, People, Fans

  "Size Matters". Interview with Laura Nathan, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

  Jerry Garcia

  Issues, Corporations, Bigs

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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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• I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

  Wentworth Miller

  Humility, Boys, People

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• The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

  Ralph Nader

  Dark, Fda, Age

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• 70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We admit that it's legal, constitutional, that the private sector is entitled to its own economy, but to ensure these profound changes that clearly this government is promoting, including profound changes in the food industry, what we are doing is an important step.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Government, Profound

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact:  Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year.  Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding.  What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population.  The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, Years, Cds

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The assumption was that a calorie is a calorie. Nothing could be further from the truth. The food industry wants you to believe that because it works for them. If a calorie is a calorie, then why would you pick on any individual food stuff?

  Robert Lustig

  Believe, Want, Stuff

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• Science is starting to show that our brains are less able to detect calories in liquids. So, people in the know, including food industry executives, when they run into health trouble, the first thing they do is cut calories out of all the liquids that they drink as a way of maintaining their weight.

  Michael Moss

  Running, Cutting, People

  "Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food". www.democracynow.org. March 1, 2013.

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• Take a cup of coffee, keep adding sugar until you reach the point that you like it the most, and then when you add more sugar, you actually like it less. Well, the food industry knows that, and they spend huge amounts of effort finding the perfect spot, not just for sugar, but for fat and salt, as well.

  Michael Moss

  Coffee, Perfect, Effort

  "Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food". www.democracynow.org. March 1, 2013.

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• The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

  David Rolf

  Wages, Poverty, Fast Food

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry. And instead of responding in earnest to the health crisis, they've spent the past 30 years getting people to eat more. This is the story of how we ended up doing just that.

  Michael Moss

  Past, Government, Average

  "Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food". www.democracynow.org. March 1, 2013.

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