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Food Industry Quotes
On consumer demand, cravings, and the business of food.
These food industry quotes examine how the business behind eating responds to consumer demand, sometimes favoring softer terms like 'crave-ability' over harder words such as addiction, a tension explored further in our chef quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
- Export
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- Nov 07, 2020
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.
- Craving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have worked my way up in the food industry being strong and steady about who I am as a person, first and foremost, as a chef and professional, and certainly as a woman.
- Damages
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- Nov 07, 2020
In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020