"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children."

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Politician

Food, People, Cause, Children

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"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children."

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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."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

Helen Rowland, American Writer

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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."

George Mikes, British Writer

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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

Jennifer Jason Leigh, American Actress

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

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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