Food Industry Quotes:

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Inspiring, People, Attention, Food Industry

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

topic: Practice, Development, Framework, Food Industry

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

- Bob Filner

topic: Children, Epidemics, Practice, Food Industry

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

- Bob Ney

topic: Years, Trials, Safe, Monetary, Food Industry

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

- Bob Filner

topic: Children, Incentives, Bills, Wrong Direction, Food Industry

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

- Martin Heidegger

source: "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

topic: Country, Agriculture, Essence, Hydrogen Bomb, Famine

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

- Pierre Dukan

topic: Years, Trying, Firsts, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

Entertainment, in the end, is a food industry for feeling.

- Jenova Chen

topic: Feelings, Entertainment, Ends, Food Industry

The fast-food industry has moved into the grocery store, so you no longer have to go to a fast-food chain to find problematic foods.

- Michael Moss

topic: Fast Food, Chains, Stores, Food Industry

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

- Morgan Spurlock

source: "Size Matters". Interview with Laura Nathan, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

topic: Responsibility, People, Fans, Food Industry

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

- Michael Pollan

topic: Demand, Sensitive, Consumers, Food Industry

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

topic: Dark, Independence, Age, Dark Ages, Food Industry

People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.

- Anna Lappe

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

topic: Sports, Children, Team, Food Industry

It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

- Ron Reagan

topic: Animal, Opportunity, Pigs, Abusers, Objections

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

- Jerry Garcia

topic: Issues, Corporations, Bigs, Takeovers, Food Industry

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

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

topic: Attitude, Technology, Thinking, Southern California, Fast Food Nation

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

- Anna Lappe

source: "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview With Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

topic: Oil, Trying, Doe, Oil Industry, Food Industry

When I see someone either break free from the grips of the food industry, leave their job for something more meaningful, or start to be in a relationship that really helps them become who they're supposed to be, that inspires me.

- Vani Hari

topic: Meaningful, Jobs, Inspire, Food Industry

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

- David Rolf

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Jobs, Self, Earning, Food Industry, Annuals

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.

- Anna Lappe

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

topic: Book, Thinking, Impact, Fast Food Nation, Environmental Impact

Have confidence in America's food industry, it deserves it.

- Frederick J. Stare

topic: Dark, America, Age, Food Industry

I think it's the snack food industry that's really pushing the ***** legalization issue in California.

- John Pappas

topic: Marijuana, Thinking, Issues, Marijuana Legalization, Food Industry

The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

- Michael Pollan

source: Source: indianapublicmedia.org

topic: Two, Care, Patient, Food Industry

I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.

- Kathleen Hanna

topic: Jobs, Yelling, Mcdonalds, Service Industry, Food Industry

Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast food industry possible, along with feedlot agriculture, pharmaceuticals on the farm, pesticides and regulatory forbearance. All these things are part of the answer to the question: Why is that crap so cheap? Our food is dishonestly priced. One of the ways in which it's dishonestly priced is the fact that people are not paid a living wage to process it, to serve it, to grow it, to slaughter it.

- Michael Pollan

topic: Real, Agriculture, People, Pesticides, Food Industry

This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry.

- Ray Kroc

topic: Dog, Competition, Ems, Food Industry

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

source: Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Running, Men, Hamburgers, Fast Food Nation, Food Industry

We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

- Dennis Kucinich

topic: Fighting, Epidemics, Years, Childhood Obesity, Food Industry

The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.

- William Proxmire

topic: Dark, Fda, Age, Medical Profession, Dark Ages

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 aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

- Eric Schlosser

topic: Food, Practice, Trying, Mislead, Food Industry

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

- Mark Hyman, M.D.

source: "The Last Diet You Will Ever Need" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2012.

topic: Brain, Kitchen, Taste Buds, Biochemistry, Food Industry

It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.

- Curtis Stone

topic: Thinking, People, Sides, Qualifications, Food Industry

We have found ways... to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell... in the multinational food industry... and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.

- David Oderberg

topic: Animal, Vegetarianism, Important, Food Industry, Multinationals

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Dark, Fda, Age, Food Industry

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

- Wentworth Miller

topic: Humility, Boys, People, Deodorant, Food Industry

Take a cup of coffee, keep adding sugar until you reach the point that you like it the most, and then when you add more sugar, you actually like it less. Well, the food industry knows that, and they spend huge amounts of effort finding the perfect spot, not just for sugar, but for fat and salt, as well.

- Michael Moss

topic: Coffee, Perfect, Effort, Food Industry

Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry. And instead of responding in earnest to the health crisis, they've spent the past 30 years getting people to eat more. This is the story of how we ended up doing just that.

- Michael Moss

topic: Past, Government, Average, Processed Food, Food Industry

The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Mean, Years, Cds, Food Industry, American Food

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

- David Rolf

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Wages, Poverty, Fast Food, Food Industry

The assumption was that a calorie is a calorie. Nothing could be further from the truth. The food industry wants you to believe that because it works for them. If a calorie is a calorie, then why would you pick on any individual food stuff?

- Robert Lustig

topic: Believe, Want, Stuff, Food Industry

70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We admit that it's legal, constitutional, that the private sector is entitled to its own economy, but to ensure these profound changes that clearly this government is promoting, including profound changes in the food industry, what we are doing is an important step.

- Evo Morales

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Country, Government, Profound, Food Industry

Science is starting to show that our brains are less able to detect calories in liquids. So, people in the know, including food industry executives, when they run into health trouble, the first thing they do is cut calories out of all the liquids that they drink as a way of maintaining their weight.

- Michael Moss

topic: Running, Cutting, People, Food Industry