The United States Now Has More Prison

I Think It's Possible To Have Food That's Healthy, That's Good For You To Eat, That's Also Inexpensive. We Don't Have To Have This Cheap, Unhealthy Food Being So Aggressively Promoted.

Basically, I'm A Perpetual Student. I Start By Finding A Subject I Really Don't Know Very Much, But That I'm Curious About. I Learn About It Through Books In A Library, By Doing Interviews With People Who Know A Lot About The Subject, And By Going Out On My Own And Seeing For Myself What's Happening.

I Went Into The Library And Read About Fast Food And Became Amazed By All The Stuff I Didn't Know. I Learned That There Is A Whole World Behind The Counter That, It Seemed To Me, Has Been Deliberately Hidden From The Public.

Twenty Years Ago, Teenage Boys In The United States Drank Twice As Much Milk As Soda; Now They Drink Twice As Much Soda As Milk.

Future Historians, I Hope, Will Consider The American Fast Food Industry A Relic Of The Twentieth Century--a Set Of Attitudes, Systems, And Beliefs That Emerged From Postwar Southern California, That Embodied Its Limitless Faith In Technology, That Quickly Spread Across The Globe, Flourished Briefly, And Then Receded, Once Its True Costs Became Clear And Its Thinking Became Obsolete.