Eric Schlosser Quotes

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

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

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.

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

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

What 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.

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

McDonald'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 sprawl was headed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

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

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

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

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

Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade.

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