Robert M. Parker Jr. Quotes

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

Doing this movie [Fast Food Nation] made me realize that our bodies are digesting things that it's not meant to digest. It's pretty bad for you. The cast is [now] very, very aware of where we get our food and what we put in our bodies.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.

I normally don't eat junk food.

I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!

Square meals often make round people.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

Junk food's not going anywhere. The specifics of what's being snacked on, and what's considered 'junk' and what's 'healthy' will change, of course, depending on what's available.

For consumers, the lesson is simple: Genetically modified foods are safe to eat.

I eat a lot of takeaways.

When I was growing up, I never really ate vegetables. I was just a hot dog, hamburger, French fry person like most kids.

People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.

A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.