Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes
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.
Velez-Mitchell, Jane, and Sandra Mohr. Addict Nation: An Intervention for America. Health Communications, Inc., 2011.
This was the first hamburger chain in America. Prior to that hamburgers were associated with greasy, unclean restaurants. Ingram stressed cleanliness and sanitation. Staff were all dressed in white and not even allowed to wear a wristwatch, cleaning was constant. Each facility was painted white on the inside and outside so that the least speck of dirt or grease would be visible. Even the outside was washed every day. He demonstrated that a restaurant could be clean and a new standard for consumers and public health was set in America. Ironically almost a hundred years later the health of hamburgers themselves would be brought into question, but for the cleanliness issue which by then had become standard in most states and communities, but for the cholesterol content of the meat.
Jane Velez-Mitchell is a television and social media journalist and author, with specialities in vegan lifestyles, animal rights, addiction and social justice.
