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

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

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

- 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

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 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

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

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

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