Quotes About Consumption

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future.

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

I probably eat yogurt more than anything else.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

People need to realise that their governments are sitting on finite resources that will run out one day. Subsidising power and water is not an ideal solution and does not help reduce consumption. We need to educate people, from a young age, about the importance of conserving energy in their daily lives.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need.

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made eating these formerly expensive and hard-to-make treats so cheap and easy that we're eating them every day.

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

I come from the streaming world, so the changing trend of consuming music that way is positive for me.

Everybody eats three times a day; it's only a question of where they choose to eat. The longer-term trends are people eat out more often.

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

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.

We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely feel like we don't have the time or energy to bother ourselves with the tribulations of nations near and far.

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything