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 consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised.
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… - Eric Schlosser
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…
- Eric Schlosser
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. - Eric Schlosser
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.
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… - Eric Schlosser
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…
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… - Eric Schlosser
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…
Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it shoul… - Eric Schlosser
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 Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. - Eric Schlosser
The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
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. - Eric Schlosser
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… - Eric Schlosser
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 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 … - Eric Schlosser
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 …
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