Top 40 Bittman Quotes
#1. We need to demonise soda, the way we've demonised cigarettes.
Mark Bittman
#2. The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.
Mark Bittman
#4. 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.
Mark Bittman
#5. That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.
Thomas Jefferson
#6. I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.
Gilbert Gottfried
#7. If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.
Mark Bittman
#8. We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year.
Mark Bittman
#9. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.
Maddy Malhotra
#10. Thank you American Library Association for naming The Gluten-Free Revolution one of the "Top 10 Food Books of 2014" Thrilled to share this honor with Alice Waters, Mark Bittman, Ruth Reichl, Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, et al
Jax Peters Lowell
#11. Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.
Mark Bittman
#12. Like pornography, junk [food] might be tough to define but you know it when you see it.
Mark Bittman
#13. The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it's a carrot.
Mark Bittman
#14. If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.
Mark Bittman
#15. As we serve our jobs we serve the world.
Henry Ford
#16. This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
Mark Bittman
#17. As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires alone that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy.
Sarada Devi
#18. 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together.
Mark Bittman
#19. Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.
Mark Bittman
#20. Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.
Mark Bittman
#21. I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.
Mark Bittman
#22. If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.
Mark Bittman
#23. My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.
Mike Bryan
#24. The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer
#25. this religion's substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.
Haruki Murakami
#26. It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.
Mark Bittman
#27. A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.
Elton John
#28. I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn't even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience.
Mark Bittman
#29. Your 'Pringle' contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may be no better for you than a snickers.
Mark Bittman
#30. Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?
Mark Bittman
#31. I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.
Shia Labeouf
#32. Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
Mark Bittman
#33. The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
Mark Bittman
#34. We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.
Mark Bittman
#35. Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.
Mark Bittman
#36. The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.
Mark Bittman
#37. A person you loved has used you and hurt you, but there are more people to love, new paths to pursue, and noble tasks that only you can accomplish-for you and for your entire kingdom. If you must dwell on something dwell on that.
Kelli Swofford Nielsen
#38. People need help to change the way they eat ... this is what government is for in my opinion ... We should make food an issue for everyone who runs for office.
Mark Bittman
#39. Tramps Like Us is The GREATEST Bruce Springsteen Tribute Band In The LAND! I've witnessed them on several occasions and their performances are SECOND TO NONE !
Mike Appel
#40. I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.
Mark Bittman
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