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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• 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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• 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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• 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 don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Jobs, Yelling, Hardest Job

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

  Michael Pollan

  Two, Care, Patient

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• I think it's the snack food industry that's really pushing the marijuana legalization issue in California.

  John Pappas

  Marijuana, Thinking, Issues

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• We have found ways... to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell... in the multinational food industry... and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.

  David Oderberg

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Important

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• Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.

  Anna Lappe

  Book, Thinking, Impact

  "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 is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.

  Curtis Stone

  Thinking, People, Add

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• Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast food industry possible, along with feedlot agriculture, pharmaceuticals on the farm, pesticides and regulatory forbearance. All these things are part of the answer to the question: Why is that crap so cheap? Our food is dishonestly priced. One of the ways in which it's dishonestly priced is the fact that people are not paid a living wage to process it, to serve it, to grow it, to slaughter it.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Agriculture, People

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• Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

  Ray Kroc

  Dog, Competition, Cooking

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Epidemics, Years

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