Quotes About Consumption

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing... I don't expect to see it again.

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us

So few people eat okra (more radishes are grown in this country) that it never even makes it onto the lists of Top 10 hated foods

Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself

Mother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the patty group, which includes hamburgers, fish sticks, and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.

Time was, you were pretty sure that the best food was the kind that was the easiest to find. Or the kind you consume at a stadium, with a game going on in front of you. This was before everyone watched the Food Network and Top Chef and the sadistic reality shows hosted by that angry British chef who screams at his "cheftestants" until the veins in his neck bulge and his shrinking victims either cry or go to the hospital with heart troubles. Well, my friend, the game has changed.

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

To summarize the soy-food situation: soy companies produce about 25 billion pounds of meal and oil every year for your use, much of it federally subsidized, that they are eager to get you to buy.

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.