Quotes About Consumption

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

It was my pork chop. But that's ok. I ate his dog food.

If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.