Industrial Food Quotes

I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn't invent pink slime, but pink slime exists: It's a non-fictional entity. Like, that stuff grosses me out so much, I couldn't make it up.

The industrial food system ships in high-calorie, low-nutrient, processed food from thousands of miles away. It leaves us disconnected from our food and the people who grow it.

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

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Think about the systems at McDonald's. It's a very mechanized world, where you take out a highly processed patty.

Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food.

The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.

The problem with industrial food is zero transparency. The system thrives on the fact that there is no transparency.

There's a little treat I like a lot called Bollycao. It's like a brioche with chocolate inside, but industrial.

We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale.

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it.

My goal is to go from the industrial food system toward a real food system where you understand what you are eating.

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

Sadly, many people in our biggest cities are at the mercy of industrial food.

The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.