192 Quotes by Eric Schlosser

Moser was a great believer in checklists.

The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers – those things are built into the operating systems and machines. Jobs that have been “deskilled” can be filled cheaply. The need to retain any individual worker is greatly reduced by the ease with which he or she can be replaced.

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

A 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 restaurants – mainly at fast food restaurants.

The Soviet Union welcomed the new system. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, urgent messages from the Soviet ambassador in Washington had been encoded by hand and then given to a Western Union messenger who arrived at the embassy on a bicycle.

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

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

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

A brand offers a feeling of reassurance when its products are always and everywhere the same.