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Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority.
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology. That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new, and I think, destructive idea. Destructive not just of the pleasure of eating which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“I had wanted to know what it would be like to be human. I knew it now. It made me want to die.”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
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