“But Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has praised Los Angeles for its practice, defended the system. ‘Come on,’ he said. ‘If you can’t pass [a health] inspection one time, you can’t pass an inspection every time.’”

- Glenn Collins’ article “A Stir Over the Plan to Grade New York City’s Restaurants” in The New York Times

“Look, we can live in San Francisco forever, and we’re never going to change anyone’s mind because we’re going to be in our insular community. If we ever want to make any change, we’ve got to be the monkey wrench from the inside.”

- Camille Eklof, co-owner of Justus Drugstore: A Restaurant (from The New York Times article “Farm to Table“)

“Whenever a pleasurable feeling is present, for as long as it is present, there is neither a feeling of pain nor a feeling of distress, nor one together.” - Epicurus, The Principle Doctrines

“There is no high-ranking food safety official in the U.S. government. There is no one accountable.” - “Looking to Obama to Bring Logic to Food Safety,” Andrew Martin, The New York Times

“The real conundrum is why we who live in a society which is constantly perfecting the art of mass-producing human bodies on the battlefield find humans good to kill but bad to eat.” - Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, 1991

“A college professor at Purdue University recalled recently that during the 1940’s he received a state grant ‘to figure out someway to use up all that food in a nonfood manner.’ The professor claimed not to be too successful at creating ‘nonfood.’ But then, he did not need to be. The perfect solution had been found elsewhere: in the American steer.”
- Frances Moore Lappé, 1975 revised introduction in Diet for a Small Planet

“Democratic freedom very largely consists in ignoring politics and worrying, instead, about the threat of scaly scalp, hairy legs, sluggish bowels, saggy breasts, receding gums, excess weight, and tired blood.” - Marshall McLuhan citing an American officer post WWII in Understanding Media

“The same town that gave the world the golden arches also gave it a biker gang that stood for a totally antithetical set of values.” - Eric Schlosser on Anaheim, California, Fast Food Nation

“Is Ham Tasty? HELLZ YEAH!” - “Is Ham Tasty?“, science fair project, The Elementary School Kidz

If honey’s what you covet
You’ll find that they love it
Because they’ll guzzle up the thing you prize!

Beware, Beware, Beware, Beware, Beware!

- “Heffalumps and Woozles,” The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh