Quotes for All
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 … Read more
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
The minimum wage isn’t earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work – the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15. David Rolf
If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden. Bill de Blasio
[The ‘corporate takeover of people’s lives’] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same. Ani DiFranco
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 … Read more