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1 " And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day. "
― Barbara Kingsolver , Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
2 " Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1% every year (growth of American population). "
― Michael Pollan , The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
3 " It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products. "
4 " Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important. "
5 " Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. "
6 " For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything. "
7 " The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them. "
