Fast Food Quotes - Page 2

• Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

  Neal Barnard

  Meat Consumption, Hands, Use

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• If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

  Jamie Oliver

  Design, Support, Junk

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner,
  then we can certainly have a garden.

  Bill de Blasio

  Garden, Restaurants, Corners

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• I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Would Be, Chickens, Knows

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• I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

  Star Jones

  Want, Sometimes, Forget

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• In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

  Bill Gates

  Men, Deep Understanding, Culture

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• I remember having no money and debating whether I should go get fast food or eat at Mom's for free. Now I'm going to these fancy places on vacation and ordering room service. I treat myself because I remember not having it.

  Fergie

  Vacation, Remember, No Money

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

  Beth Ditto

  Jobs, Forever, Approach

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• Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

  Mario Batali

  Smart, Mean, Wings

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• 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

  Running, Men, Hamburgers

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

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• If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr.. you might be a redneck

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Might

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• 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

  Attitude, Technology, Thinking

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

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• I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

  Colonel Sanders

  Funny, Drunk, Entrepreneur

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• Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

  J.A. Konrath

  Sorry, Dad, Heart

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

  David Rolf

  Wages, Poverty, Notorious

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

  Joel Salatin

  Eating, Restaurants, Ifs

  "Food, Inc". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize these four crops - five altogether, but one is cotton - and these are the building blocks of fast food. One of the ways you democratize healthy food is you support healthy food.

  Michael Pollan

  Block, Support, Healthy

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

  Naomi Klein

  Powerful, Nihilism, Delicacy

  "It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2003.

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• When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

  Diane Abbott

  Children, Dark, Bombarded By

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• It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

  Alex Kapranos

  Couple, Block, Lying

  "Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand". Interview With Andy Battaglia, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

  George Wald

  Mean, Breakfast Food, Giving

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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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• 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

  Book, Thinking, Impact

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

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• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Golf, Race, Games

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• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  Ed Westwick

  Mcdonalds, Long, Okay

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