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Tom Lehrer

"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

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"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

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"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

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"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."

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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

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"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."

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"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

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