Cheap Food Quotes:

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth.

- Prince Charles

topic: Earth, Cheap Food

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

- Michael Pollan

source: "Fresh". Documentary, News, www.imdb.com. 2009.

topic: Real, Cost, Subsidies, Cheap Food

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

- Roald Dahl

topic: Food, Cereal, Shaving, Pencil Sharpeners, Cheap Food

Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land.

- Alice Waters

topic: Real, Land, People, Cheap Food, Farmers Markets

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.

- Eric Schlosser

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Long, Add, Cost, Cheap Food

I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

- Patrice O'Neal

topic: Order, Needs, Buffets, Cheap Food

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

- Prince Charles

topic: Agriculture, Environmental, Cost, Antibiotics, Water Pollution

The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

- Ellen Gustafson

source: "Solving the world's hunger and obesity crises together" by Ellen Gustafson, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2010.

topic: Children, America, Two, Havoc, Cardiovascular

People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.

- Alice Waters

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Integrity, Years, Roots, Cheap Food

There's a lot of things that haven't been communicated to our communities. I didn't know these things myself. I didn't know that if you ate cheap food, it was like buying cheap gasoline, and there was a reason why after an hour you get headaches, or youhypoglycemic.

- Sandra Cisneros

source: "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

topic: Community, Gasoline, Buying, Cheap Food

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

- Eamon de Valera

topic: Country, Garden, Kitchen, Cheap Food

The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.

- Will Rogers

topic: Clothes, Should Have, Gasoline, Sales Tax, Painless