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The industrial animal factory offers a nightmarish glimpse of what capitalism is capable of in the absence of any moral or regulatory constraint whatsoever.

— Michael Pollan

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Sometimes the cause of civilization is best served by a hard stare into the soul of its opposite.

The Botany of Desire (2001)

The most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (2013)

You're better off eating the real thing in moderation than binging on 'lite' food products that pack less flavor but more chemical additives.

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (2009)

The family meal is the nursery of democracy.

Evolution doesn’t depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process.

The Botany of Desire (2001)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

The most obvious negative feature of capitalism is that it can produce private monopolies that restrict output and thereby harm consumers.

Dennis Mueller The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism (2012)

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Fidel Castro

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