logo

Quotes About Consumption

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses
~ Karl Marx
Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.
~ Fred Allen
The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
~ Michael Pollan
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The real food is not being advertised.
~ Michael Pollan
I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.
~ Erich von Stroheim
We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.
~ Laura Huxley
Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.
~ Kingsley Amis
You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.
~ Dan Deacon
There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.
~ Unknown
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
~ Douglas Coupland
People say that all you get out of sugar is calories, no nutrients...There is no perfect food, not even mother's milk.
~ Unknown
The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.
~ George Hamilton
Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone's faces.
~ Rawi Hage, Carnival
Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.
~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)
~ Unknown
Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
~ Ramez Naam
I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet.
~ Andrew Lansley
Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
~ Fat Joe
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
~ Simone Weil
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
~ Michel De Certeau