192 Quotes by Eric Schlosser

The BMEWS site at Thule had mistakenly identified the moon, slowly rising over Norway, as dozens of long-range missiles launched from Siberia.

I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn’t know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.

Indeed, market research has found that children often recognize a brand logo before they can recognize their own name.

The usefulness of the market, its effectiveness as a tool, cuts both ways. The real power of the American consumer has not yet been unleashed. The heads of Burger King, KFC, and McDonald’s should feel daunted; they’re outnumbered. There are three of them and almost three hundred million of you.

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

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

The people designing the weapons literally often didn’t know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force – and a lot of people in the Air Force didn’t understand some of the dangers. There’s a very strong element of madness in this.

We found very little correlation between turnover and profitability...

By 1940, there were about a million cars in Los Angeles, more cars than in forty-one states.