Cheap Food Quotes

• 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

  Real, Subsidies, Cash

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

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

  Prince Charles

  Earth

  Prince Charles' Speech at the Langenburg Forum on Regional Food Security, Langenburg Castle, Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany, www.princeofwales.gov.uk. May 27, 2013.

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• 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

  Food, Home Cooking, Cereal

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.126, Penguin

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• 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

  Real, Land, People

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• 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

  Long, Add, Cost

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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

  Patrice O'Neal

  Order, Needs, Buffets

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• 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

  Often Is, Agriculture, Environmental

  "Organics Interview". Interview With Joanne Shoebridge, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2005.

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• 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. Any analysis of the real cost would have to look at such things as the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent of new pathogens, antibiotic resistance from the overuse of drugs in animal feed, extensive water pollution from intensive agricultural systems and many other factors. These costs are not reflected in the price of fast food.

  Prince Charles

  Real, Animal, Often Is

  "Organics Interview". Interview With Joanne Shoebridge, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2005.

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• 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

  Children, Two, America

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

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• 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

  Integrity, Years, Roots

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Community, Gasoline, Buying

  "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.

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• 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

  Country, Garden, Kitchen

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• 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

  Clothes, Should Have, Gasoline

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