Christina Applegate Quotes

I want to know what my food has been eating.

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.

We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.

I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.

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

The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.

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.

Beef should be organic and grass-fed; fish should be wild, not farm raised.

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.

The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.

We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.

If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment.

I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.

Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

I love judging food by its smell and feel and taste. The healthiest tomato isn't always the perfect one that's been covered in pesticides.