The Food Police Quotes

“The nutritional composition of beef provides much-needed protein, vitamins and iron.... Let us also not gloss over what is beef's most obvious benefit: Livestock take inedible and untasty grains and convert them into a protein-packed food most humans love to eat.”
― Jayson Lusk, The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

“We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.”
― Jayson Lusk, The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

“The hypocrisy is astounding. So now, “in the City by the Bay, if you want to roller skate naked down Castro Street wearing a phallic-symbol hat and snorting an eight-ball off a transgender hooker’s chest while underage kids run behind you handing out free heroin needles, condoms and coupons … that’s your right as a free citizen of the United States. But if you want to put a Buzz Lightyear toy in the same box with a hamburger and fries and sell it, you’re outta line, mister!”3”
― Jayson Lusk, The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

“There is no perfect government except in textbooks.”
― Jayson Lusk, The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

“You see, the genetics of the corn used in those fritters are nothing like what Mother Nature originally created.”
― Jayson Lusk, The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

“Elites mistakenly believe they know more than they actually do, and successes within their own specialties of knowledge lead them to overestimate their competence in other areas—such as policy”
― Jayson Lusk, The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

“modern liberalism “is an ideology of good intentions” wrapped up in a “cult of action.”16”
― Jayson Lusk, The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate