192 Quotes by Eric Schlosser

I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger.

I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.

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

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

The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

I'd like to think that, in the United States, you can criticize a company that makes hamburgers without having to worry about what might happen to you.

'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article.

I think there should be very strict limits on the pathogens that can be sold in your meat. There should be limits on disease-causing pathogens. Tests should determine whether the meat is contaminated or not, and you shouldn't be allowed to sell contaminated meat.