We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it.
Eric SchlosserThe 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 SchlosserWhat we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.
Eric SchlosserDifferent people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.
Eric SchlosserThe federal government has more power to recall a defective stuffed animal who's little glass eye may fall off than to recall contaminated ground beef that could sicken or even kill hundreds if not thousands of people. The meat-packing industry is so powerful that it's managed to prevent the government from having this basic power of recalling a defective product.
Eric Schlosser