“ Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. Eric Schlosser
“ The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers---those things are built into the operating systems and machines. Jobs that have been "deskilled" can be filled cheaply. The… Eric Schlosser
“ A poor grasp of dead reckoning may have led Christopher Columbus to North America instead of India, a navigational error of about eight thousand miles. Eric Schlosser
“ A nationwide study published by the USDA in 1996 found that [...] 78.6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal matter. The medical literature on the causes of… Eric Schlosser
“ The first duty of the command and control system is to survive, Baran argued, proposing a distributed network with hundreds or thousands of separate nodes connected through multiple paths. Messages wo… Eric Schlosser
“ Again and again workers told me that they are under tremendous pressure not to report injuries. The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based in part on the injury rate of their… Eric Schlosser
“ Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries. Eric Schlosser
“ The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldlan… Eric Schlosser
“ Support for a first strike extended far beyond the upper ranks of the U.S. military. Bertrand Russell—the British philosopher and pacifist, imprisoned for his opposition to the First World War—urged t… Eric Schlosser
“ One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and… Eric Schlosser
“ I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the peopl… Eric Schlosser
“ By 1940, there were about a million cars in Los Angeles, more cars than in forty-one states. Eric Schlosser
“ As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source. Eric Schlosser
“ Eager to defend the civilian control of nuclear weapons from military encroachment, John F. Kennedy and Robert McNamara had fought hard to ensure that only the president could make the ultimate decisi… Eric Schlosser
“ McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually d… Eric Schlosser
“ Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu. Eric Schlosser
“ The spread of BSE [mad cow disease] in Europe has revealed how secret alliances between agribusiness and government can endanger the public health. It has shown how the desire for profit can overrule… Eric Schlosser
“ Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins. Eric Schlosser
