Eric SchlosserYes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.371Politics
Eric SchlosserTwenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk. ✨ Eric Schlosser (2001). Fast Food Nation: T… ▶331Politics
Eric SchlosserA public outcry usually masks a private obsession.323Sadness
Eric SchlosserFast 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.356Humanity
Eric SchlosserThe fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody wh… ▶334Reflection
Eric SchlosserThe 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 what… ▶313Sadness
Eric SchlosserBy birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person. ✨ Food fight. Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. Apr… ▶274Thought
Eric SchlosserThe market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it. ✨ Fast Food Nation: The Da… ▶329HopeReading
Eric SchlosserThe United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers. ✨ Eric Schlosser (2001). Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, p.8, Houghton Miffli… ▶286PoliticsTime
Eric SchlosserA generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at … ▶231Politics
Eric SchlosserCongress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers fro… ▶254DeathPolitics
Eric SchlosserThe 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.201Truth
Eric SchlosserToday the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking comp… ▶192Politics
Eric SchlosserI'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.172LifeThought
Eric SchlosserThe 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… ▶161Life
Eric SchlosserMarijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without … ▶216Life
Eric SchlosserWhat we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.… ▶152Reading
Eric SchlosserThe history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail e… ▶199Politics
Eric SchlosserMcDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where spra… ▶199Death
Eric SchlosserIn 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 … ▶145Reading
Eric SchlosserFuture 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 south… ▶148DeathHopeReading
