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"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."
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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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Personal Development
"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
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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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"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."
Writing
"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
Food
"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."
Food
"Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of corn yields 33 pounds of fructose)"
Science
"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."
Change
"It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease]."
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"A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals."
Time
"Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest."
Health
"Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: It behooved our hunter gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine."
Evolution
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