Quotes About Consumption

The modern food and drug industry has converted a significant portion of the world's people to a new religion—a massive cult of pleasure seekers who consume coffee, cigarettes, soft drinks, candy, chocolate, alcohol, processed foods, fast foods, and concentrated dairy fat (cheese) in a self-indulgent orgy of destructive behavior.

Vegetables and fruits protect against all types of cancers if consumed in large enough quantities.

Processed foods include the following: white bread, bagels, chips, pasta, donuts, cookies, breakfast bars, cold cereals, soft drinks, pretzels, condiments, and premade salad dressings.

Americans consume less than 10 percent of their calories from unrefined plant foods such as fruits, beans, seeds, and vegetables. However, that 10 percent figure is misleading, because about half the vegetable consumption in America is white potato products, including fries and chips! If you remove the white potato from consideration (not a particularly nutritious food), the other produce would amount to less than 5 percent of the American diet.

Incredibly, by 2010 these processed foods had become 62 percent of the calories in the standard American diet.

USA FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA

In the United States, for example, less than 5 percent of total calories consumed come from fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts.

In the United States, for example, less than 5 percent of total calories consumed come from fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts. And yet these are the foods that are richest in micronutrients!

DR. FUHRMAN'S FOOD PYRAMID In a food pyramid, the foods that are consumed in the highest quantity are placed at the base. However, the traditional American food pyramid

Intuitively we all know that nothing operates most efficiently at full throttle. Is it any wonder that a food system predicated on faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper would create an ignorant, duplicitous, harried, obese citizenry? A culture's people carry in their heads and physiques the manifestation of the food system's objectives.

Industrial eggs are washed in a chlorine bath. Since the shells are permeable, some of that chlorine enters the egg. This is standard food safety protocol. In fact, some health department inspectors believe an egg not washed in chlorine is not fit for human consumption.

All animal foods cause illness when consumed in amounts typically found in the Western diet. Why? Primarily because they are the wrong foods for humans.

Should I not partake of anything the world consumes? If so, how can I live and function in this world?

Would there be no end to publishing? he wondered. Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.

Page: Don't keep the world on tenterhooks, Tom! Out with it! What's the best thing we can do to ensure a long, happy, healthy future for mankind? Grey: We can just about restore the balance of the ecology, the biosphere, and so on-in other words we can live within our means instead of on an unrepayable overdraft, as we've been doing for the past half century-if we exterminate the two hundred million most extravagant and wasteful of our species. Page: Follow that if you can, Mr. President.

and Hoffman la Roche, manufacturers of Valium. The cost of the raw material and manufacturing of Valium to Hoffman la Roche is $3 per kilo (2.2 pounds). It is sold to their distributors for $20,000 per kilo. By the time it reaches the consumer, the price of Valium has risen to $50,000 per kilo. Valium is used in huge quantities in Europe and the United States. It is possibly the most used drug of its kind in the world.

Love is like a box of chocolates. You don't know how good it is until they are all gone.

Make up can make you beautiful on the outside. It wont work if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the makeup.

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.