Eric Schlosser Quotes

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.

I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.

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

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

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

The 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,

If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed,

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

Did somebody say McUnion? [ ... ] Not if they want to keep their McJob.

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

Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

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

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

It's possible to go to the market, buy good ingredients, and make yourself a healthy meal for less than it costs to buy a value meal at McDonald's.

We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more warning about unintended consequences, about human arrogance and the blind worship of science.

The 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.

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

To know a country you must see it whole.

Today approximately three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States.

I never consciously set out to model myself after Upton Sinclair.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.

Dropping a nuclear weapon was never a good idea.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

McMahon predicted that "total power in the hands of total evil will equal destruction." The

Walter Junior, were in the toolshed outside their home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, when a Mark 6 atomic bomb landed in the yard. Mrs.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

One of my favorite dishes in the world used to be steak tartare, which is raw ground beef seasoned and then served.

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

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

Fast 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.

Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove.

The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible.

Sergeant Paul Ramoneda, a twenty-eight-year-old baker with the Ninth Food Service Squadron, was one of the first to reach the bomber.

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.

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

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

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

I hadn't planned on being an activist.

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

Americans not only smoke more marijuana but also imprison more people for marijuana than any other western industrialized nation.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.