192 Quotes by Eric Schlosser

Stan Spray, a Sandia engineer who burned, crushed, and routinely tortured nuclear weapon components to discover their flaws.

The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there’s a growing realization across the country that we’ve got to change what we’re feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start.

Andropov’s concerns were heightened by the Reagan administration’s top secret psychological warfare program, designed to spook and confuse the Kremlin. American naval exercises were staged without warning near important military bases along the Soviet coastline; SAC bombers entered Soviet airspace and then left it, testing the air defenses. The.

And workers who needed to go to the bathroom weren’t allowed to take a break. They were forced to pee right on the slaughterhouse floor, near meat that people would soon be eating.

The suicide rate among ranchers and farmers in the United States is now about three times higher than the national average.

The war on foodborne pathogens deserves the sort of national attention and resources that has been devoted to the war on drugs. Far more Americans are severely harmed every year by food poisoning than by illegal drug use. And the harms caused by food poisoning are usually inadvertent and unanticipated. People who smoke crack know the potential dangers; most people who eat hamburgers don’t. Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior.

The impact of McDonald’s on the way we live today is hard to overstate. The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

The smallest attack option would hit the Soviet Union with almost two thousand weapons; the largest with more than three thousand. The vast scale and inflexibility of the SIOP led Kissinger to describe it as a “horror strategy.

Years ago when I got stuck, I’d start twirling my hair. That’s not possible anymore. I can’t prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.