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The family meal is the nursery of democracy.

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

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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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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