Mark Bittman famous quotes

03-28-2025

I got into cooking out of self-defense.
-- Mark Bittman

#Self #Cooking #Defense
It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.
-- Mark Bittman

#Memories #Short Memory
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

#Running #Government #Issues
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

#Thinking #Animal #Benefits
This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
-- Mark Bittman

#Stuff #Plant #Evidence
1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.
-- Mark Bittman

#People #World #Care
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

#Real #Broken #Needs
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

#Environmental #Weight #Satisfaction
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

#Heart #Animal #Simple
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

#Beer #Cake #Feelings
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

#Cereal #Ice #May
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

#Kings #Thrones #Subsidies
Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna's donuts are the best I've had in 20 years, without exception.
-- Mark Bittman

#Years #Gluten #Vegan
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

#Swimming #Filth #Salmon
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

#Needs #Bottles #World
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

#Evil #Littles #Empires
Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.
-- Mark Bittman

#Years #Acting #Junk
The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; itâ€™s a carrot.
-- Mark Bittman

#Fake #Healthy #Alternatives
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

#Country #World #Standards
Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesnâ€™t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.
-- Mark Bittman

#Monday #Cutting #Sacrifice
We need to demonise soda, the way we've demonised cigarettes.
-- Mark Bittman

#Way #Needs #Soda
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

#Animal #Years #Eating
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

#Hands #Junk #Matter

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