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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.
Eric Schlosser
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Eric Schlosser
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 17
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Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.
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The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.
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I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.
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What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.
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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.
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I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I hope they just read from the beginning to the end and be made to think about the subject. Then they can come to their own conclusions.
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I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.
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Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.
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I think there could hardly be a more important subject than health and nutrition.
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So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.
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Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.
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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.
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Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.
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Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.
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I think it's possible to have food that's healthy, that's good for you to eat, that's also inexpensive. We don't have to have this cheap, unhealthy food being so aggressively promoted.
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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.
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