Quotes About Consumption

Tirar a la basura es un gesto de poder. El poder prescindir de bienes que otros necesitarían; el poder de saber que otros se ocuparían de desaparecerlo. El poder de poseer es placentero; nunca más que el poder de deshacerse: el poder de no necesitar la posesión. El poder verdadero es desdeñarlo.

Hay sociedades donde los más ricos necesitan que los más pobres sean menos pobres, donde los precisan para crear o consumir las riquezas que los enriquecen. Nuestras economías, basadas en la extracción y exportación de materias primas, pueden funcionar más allá de esos millones de personas que no son necesarias ni para producir ni para consumir. Solo se necesita contenerlas:

That isn't how this works, expositor." Then he peeled Tarrow's soul from his body and ate his life.

After medical marijuana was relegalized in California, Mikuriya treated hundreds of alcoholic patients who got their lives back after switching to pot. In general, he found that an increase in the consumption of marijuana correlated with a reduction in the consumption of alcohol. As far as Mikuriya was concerned, marijuana was not a gateway drug to addiction—it was an exit drug.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Imagine waking up in the morning and going to the kitchen and to make yourself some breakfast. You take some soybean grits, mix them with some tainted cattle meat, throw in a few beaks and feathers, smother your concoction with processed sugar syrup and chemicals, then sprinkle on a few preservatives and dyes. Pressure cook the hell out of it, let it cool-and dig in!

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans.

In some instances, I've found that executives don't even use their own products.

The brands we like, and buy, and surround ourselves with—and by now you know I define a "brand" as anything from the music on our playlists to our shoes, to our sheets, to our toothpaste, to the artwork hanging on our walls—have the profoundest possible things to say about who we are.

Alcoolul este legat de istoria omenirii ÅŸi c? num?r? mai mulÅ£i adepÅ£i decît creÅŸtinismul, budismul ÅŸi islamismul la un loc.

Via?a este un animal care se hr?ne?te cu cecuri ?i cu c?r?i de credit.

Of all domesticated mammals, pigs possess the greatest potential for swiftly and efficiently changing plants into flesh.

THE PUZZLE of cannibalism concerns the socially sanctioned con­ sumption of human flesh when other foods are available.

From antiquity to modern times, virtually every society that has been organized as a state has condemned the consumption of human flesh more forcefully than it has condemned the consumption of any other kind of animal food.

We can eat and digest everything from rancid mammary gland secretions to fungi to rocks (or cheese, mushrooms, and salt if you prefer euphemisms).

Las explicaciones de los estilos de vida son como las patatas fritas. La gente insiste en comérselas hasta acabar con toda la bolsa.

En una sociedad cuyo principal problema de nutrición es la obesidad, se olvida fácilmente lo horrible que puede ser para el organismo humano la falta de comida y de bebida.

You do realize that you are a termite. You are eating through my soul.

one dollar for every ton of waste.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Love is blind, and greed insatiable

We should have made do at home. We threw away so much food." Ricky says, "We ran out of ketchup," and the rest of them concur. No ketchup, no dinner.

We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.