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 ….

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it..

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 nurtu….

The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000…. Now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the anim….

Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs t….

Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is ….

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..

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….

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross..

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu..

Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint….

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

When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all….

The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french frie….

The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be mar….

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat….

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 ignora….

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk..

Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it shoul….

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 aggress….

We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it..