Robert Kenner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us
-- Robert Kenner

#Buying #Free Market
Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the wellbeing of the animals they're slaughtering, or the land and the water they're using or abusing, or the workforce they're exploiting or even the people eating it.
-- Robert Kenner

#Animal #Hands #Land
The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000,
-- Robert Kenner

#Years #Way #Lasts
Industrial food makers don't want you thinking about where your food comes from and what's in it.
-- Robert Kenner

#Thinking #Want #Makers
I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.
-- Robert Kenner

#Optimistic #Thinking #Government
It's really tough for the small farmer to have a successful business. That is the big challenge - all the laws are designed for larger corporations. And that's going to be the challenge in this country; it goes beyond food.
-- Robert Kenner

#Country #Successful #Law

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.
Buying art is not understanding art.
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us
There is no free market for oil.
If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

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