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.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.