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1 " To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables, and 10% of its meats. In 2007, these foods arrived in 25,000 shipments a day from about 100 countries. The FDA was able to inspect about 1% of these shipments, down from 8% in 1992. In contrast, the USDA is able to inspect 16% of the foods under its purview. By one assessment, the FDA has become so short-staffed that it would take the agency 1,900 years to inspect every foreign plant that exports food to the United States. "
― Marion Nestle , Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
2 " ...the question of portion size. When I ate Doritos or a Big Mac, I dept on eating and eating, and later experienced McRegret. So why when I ate a fourteen-week-old barred rock [heirloom breed chicken] or a grapefruit did I find it tremendously delicious and yet tremendously satisfying? If these foods tasted better, shouldn't I have just kept on gorging?Fred Provenza believes the difference comes down to what he calls " deep satiety." " Fundamentally," he told me, " eating too much is an inability to satiate." Wen food meets needs at " multiple levels," it provides a feeling of " completeness" and offers a satisfaction that's altogether different from being stuffed. "
3 " Can these foods [low-fat, vitamin-enriched, etc] even be called " healthy" ? Perhaps we should think about it this way: If you cut a batch of pharmaceutical-grade cocaine with chai, you could say with some degree of honesty that it is " healthier," " less addictive," and " now with chai!" But would you say it's " good for you" ? "
4 " There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet. "
