6 Quotes & Sayings By Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman is a writer and columnist for the New York Times. He is the author of six bestselling cookbooks and has written extensively about food, nutrition and health topics for Slate, the New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. His books include How to Cook Everything, Viva Mexico! and The Food Matters Cookbook. Mark holds master's degrees in public health and journalism from Columbia University Read more

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1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. Mark Bittman
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Like pornography, junk [food] might be tough to define but you know it when you see it. Mark Bittman
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The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness. Mark Bittman
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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
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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