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Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author known for his investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).

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I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.

America, Book, Country, Following, Immigrants, Written

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

Fast, Favors, Salt, Sugar, Taste, Tastes

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

Aggressively, Food, Lead, Practice, Tries, Trying

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

Faith, Hollow, Important, Make, Tools, Worship

Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.

Drinking, Kids, Ideas, Down, Taking

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

Boys, Drank, Drink, Teenage, United, Years

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

Cheap, Convenient, Cost, Real, Taste

Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.

Experiments, Learning, Process, Restaurants, Students

McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

Mcdonalds, Pioneers, Places, Retail, Sprawl, Things

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.

Begins, Different, Differently, Interesting Conversation, People

There's been a growing effort to kick soda out of the schools. And governors as different as Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and Mike Huckabee in Arkansas have worked hard to get soda and junk food out of their state schools, which is good.

California, Effort, Food, School, State, Worked

The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it.

Eat, Eating, Know, Might, Truth, Want

I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.

Fast, Food, Library, Public, Stuff, World

The people designing the weapons literally often didn't know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force - and a lot of people in the Air Force didn't understand some of the dangers. There's a very strong element of madness in this.

Air, Know, People, Strong

In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

Book, Car, Cars, Movies, Recorded, Video

Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.

Loss, Prove, Start, Think, Thinking, Writing

I think there could hardly be a more important subject than health and nutrition.

Thinking, Important, Nutrition, Think, Health

A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.

Fast, Home, Spent, Today, United States, Used

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.

Create, Dialogue, Investigative, Reporters, Trying

The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

Executives, Hamburgers, Men, Running

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