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  • It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.

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  • I actually didn't read the book [Fast Food Nation]. I wasn't aware of it. But when I read the script, I thought "Wow." It became a project that was just so exciting to be a part of. Maybe a few times in a career [you] get a chance for a role that really means something, and this was it.

    Book   Mean   Careers  
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  • The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

  • Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

    Eric Schlosser (2002). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, Harper Perennial
  • 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.

    Teenage   Boys   Years  
    Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

    Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.
  • The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

  • Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

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

    Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.

    Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.

    Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.

    Book   Thinking   Impact  
    "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.
  • 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.

    Real   Taste   Cost  
  • Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.

    Children   Book   Long  
  • Doing this movie [Fast Food Nation] made me realize that our bodies are digesting things that it's not meant to digest. It's pretty bad for you. The cast is [now] very, very aware of where we get our food and what we put in our bodies.

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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.

    Book   Car   Video  
    Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

    Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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