“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.” ChildrenChristianMotherAtheismThousandEatingConsequenceDiedTwentiesKillingHungerPositive AtheismLocalsThirtyNicaraguaMaize Author:Bartolome de las Casas
“Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle...of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.” PeopleGovernmentSimpleTeachLateEatingConsequenceStonesMiraclePassionateSeedsBreadInevitableMiraculousCornProceduresKeynes Author:Ludwig von Mises
“When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised.” ThinkingWayMayBodyCompanyTasteEatingConsequenceRaisedWorkersYour BodyMealsRestaurantsFarmsPotatoesCattleFast FoodFast Food Restaurants Author:Eric Schlosser
“Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.” JoyConflictEatingConsequenceMy FamilyPainfulComplicatedViolentPlagueEating Disorder Author:Myriam Gurba
“That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.” PeopleThinkingShouldWellsIdeasEnoughProblemWould BeEarthSufferingChoicesNationsPleasureWorryBecomingHealthyEatingConsequenceObsessionDietsRelatedDestructiveNutritionUnhealthyHealthy EatingFood ChoicesUnhealthy Obsession Author:Michael Pollan