Michael Moss Quotes

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort... to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.

Manufacturers of food try to get the optimal ratio to tap into your impulsivity. They don't care about your health.

You can be addicted to meat, as far as I'm concerned. Why else would I eat six cheeseburgers a day?

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go through four Mountain Dews a day. I'm on, like, a sugar high at all times, pretty much.

Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.

I don't want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

I was a food junkie.

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed our taste buds to virtually anything else.

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

I'm a huge food addict.

I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.

I have a problem with sweets. I have an inability to eat a just little bit. It's almost like I can't even enjoy chocolate anymore - I have to stuff it into my brain, cram it into my ears.

I have a fondness for junk food - it still calls me, sometimes.

I know that a lot of my life is spent thinking about crisps and eating crisps and hating myself for eating crisps. It's just not worth it. Or it wouldn't be if crisps weren't so delicious.

My greatest weakness is... food. If it looks like it's going to taste nice, it goes in my face - simple as that.