List of Mark Bittman Quotes

Our Demand For Meat, Dairy And Refined Carbohydrates - The World Consumes One Billion Cans Or Bottles Of Coke A Day - Our Demand For These Things, Not Our Need, Our Want - Drives Us To Consume Way More Calories Than Are Good For Us.

I Live Full-time In The World Of Omnivores, And I've Never Wanted To Leave. But The Standard American Diet (yes, It's Sad) Got To Me As It Gets To Almost Everyone In This Country.

We Are Already Eating Less Animal Foods Since A Few Years Ago, But We Are Still Eating 8-9 Billion Animals Per Year.

I'm Not A Vegetarian. Now, Don't Get Me Wrong - I Like Animals. And I Don't Think It's Just Fine To Industrialize Their Production And To Churn Them Out Like They Were Wrenches. But There's No Way To Treat Animals Well When You're Killing 10 Billion Of Them A Year. Kindness Might Just Be A Bit Of A Red Herring. Let's Get The Numbers Of Animals We're Killing For Eating Down, And Then We'll Worry About Being Nice To The Ones That Are Left.

Vegan Or Not, Gluten-free Or Not, Erin Mckenna's Donuts Are The Best I've Had In 20 Years, Without Exception.

The Current Health Crisis, However, Is A Little More The Work Of The Evil Empire. We Were Told, We Were Assured, That The More Meat And Dairy And Poultry We Ate, The Healthier We'd Be

Keeping Some Calorie-dense Food In Your Diet-whether It Is Meat, Pasta, Beer, Or Cake-allows You To Reach Satiety More Quickly And Easily. And This Will Keep You From Feeling Deprived.

I Think People At Least Now, As Opposed To Ten-15-20 Years Ago, Kind Of Get It, What Is The Bad Food. I Think, Before, There Was A Time When They Didn't Even Get It That Processed Food Was Hurting Them. Now, I Think They Get That, But The Big Enemies To Switching Over To Good Food Are Convenience.

We Need To Demonise Soda, The Way We've Demonised Cigarettes.

If You're A Progressive, If You're Driving A Prius, Or You're Shopping Green Or You're Looking For Organic, You Should Probably Be A Semi-vegetarian.

Thanks To Farm Subsidies, The Fine Collaboration Between Agribusiness And Congress, Soy, Corn And Cattle Became King. And Chicken Soon Joined Them On The Throne. It Was During This Period That The Cycle Of Dietary And Planetary Destruction Began, The Thing We're Only Realizing Just Now.

It's Good To Have A Short Memory Because It Keeps Life Fresh.