Eric Schlosser

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.