192 Quotes by Eric Schlosser

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

The 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 whatever sells at a profit.

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,

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

In 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 computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

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,

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

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

Congress 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 from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.